roust

The only thing that could roust me from my peaceful slumber was the most grotesque vision imaginable: an undulating river of red lights in front of me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

I’d be the guy who falls asleep at 10, waking when authorities shine spotlights and blare Kenny G songs at my house to roust me out to vote.

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2024

And thus the cycle of having to roust a sleepy, yawning teenager from bed for school begins again.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2022

She didn’t roust a quorum of designers from their set ways.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2022

"As to Dagmer, the Cleftjaw is gone to Old Wyk at your father's behest, to roust the Stonehouses and the Drumms."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Sept. 16, 2019: The Tulsa Police Department finds Crawford’s body and rousts the local Nixonville.

From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2019

He rousts past Coleman and lays back for Krychowiak, arriving on the edge of the box to thunk wide.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2015

But truly the word, "Woman's Suffrage," rousts him up as quick as a mouse duz a drowsy cat, so, sez he, "I can't let you go, Samantha, into any such dangerous and onwomanly affair."

From Samantha on the Woman Question by Marietta Holley

I tell you, when anybody gets into political life, ambition rousts up in 'em: path-master don't satisfy me.

From Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician by Marietta Holley

Eastern on July 20, bleary-eyed kids were rousted from their beds so they could tell their grandchildren they witnessed an epic event.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Just when they have found a welcoming home, these wandering warriors may be on the verge of getting rousted again.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

There is a strong chance that the quiet English degree-bearer in your life has already read the piece by Nathan Heller, who rousted several bewildering quotes from top-level Harvard academics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

It's getting increasingly difficult to find a place to sleep for the night without being rousted by police.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2022

He rousted about the empty drawers of his adopted desk for matches or a lighter, but he could find nothing.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

In voting unanimously last week for ambassadors, Sound Transit’s governing board shunned other tactics ranging from eliminating fares to rousting people off trains for nonpayment to installing station turnstiles that require a pass or ticket.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2022

“On more than one occasion, I have gone down to the police who are stopping and rousting the kids around Washington Prep because the kids are leaving after 7 o’clock,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2021

The years of pounding London’s streets and rousting out its ghosts are gone.

From The Guardian ● May 20, 2017

It is not as if police departments were ignoring inner-city communities before the practice of rousting suspects on drug corners was known by a fancy buzzword.

From Washington Post ● May 4, 2015

Normally the girl woke in a whirlwind, rousting awake all who were near.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill