roust

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

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

From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2022

Advocates for the homeless ardently protest efforts to roust the encampments, arguing people have nowhere else to go.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2022

For 19 days, she evaded the men who came with poles and nets and ropes, and a helicopter that thwapped its rotor blades at the water to roust her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2021

“What will we do once we catch him? I’ve been teaching myself to pinkie whistle. I might be able to roust someone up to help us.”

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

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

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2022

One of the men rousted by the officers went up to the platform.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022

That same month, he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after cops rousted him at 3:45 in the morning as he slept on a walkway between his studio and an adjoining building.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2021

They were evicted from the boarding house two days later, and had to find a bridge to sleep under, but were soon rousted by the stadwatch.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

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

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