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

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

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

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 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

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

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

When I was a kid, Richard and Mildred Loving were rousted from their wedding bed by police for the crime of getting married; he was white and she was Black.

From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2021

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

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

I’ll head back to Monterey later this summer to see if the bulldozers have begun rousting the birds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2016

I tried rousting them by leaning into them and whispering, “Velia, Delia, wake up. Wake up girls,” but they were out cold, so I closed my eyes and prayed.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall