roust
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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
Pinto, whose family fled Venezuela after her husband, an ex-government soldier, disobeyed orders to roust another family, said she and other migrants understand that their path to economic stability will be long.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2022
Asking the cops to roust them out of the building would have been terrible optics.
From Salon ● May 1, 2022
The officers rushed to roust nearby residents out of their homes and clear the avenue.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2022
How else would the night watchman know when to roust his fellows out of their comfortable straw beds to begin the day’s devotions?
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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
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
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
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
Thousands fled Maui after the fires rousted them from their resort hotels and sent them scrambling from their sun chairs on Tuesday.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
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
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
Since then, a new mayor has accelerated the pace of rousting encampments.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2022
They described rushing into buildings and rousting residents — “scaring the bejesus” out of at least one of them.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2020
Six o’clock already, I was just rousting offspring from bed, Then I stopped to check my email and just stood there shaking my head.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2019
The years of pounding London’s streets and rousting out its ghosts are gone.
From The Guardian ● May 20, 2017
“Why on earth are you rousting me at this insane hour? Some of us are trying to sleep.”
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
