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How to use rouse in a sentence

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Some of the boys await the bride and groom to leave the house and a great bell is rung to rouse the neighbourhood.
It beeped and whirred to life, the hard-drive sounding its soft purr as it accessed the system files needed to rouse the little giant.
It finally took a hard smack with Godzilla's tail to rouse him out of his glum state and knock us all over with a wind tornado of anger.
Mind you, if they made a movie of that, I might rouse myself from my burrow post-haste.
Columns of kids shouldering past me in the crowd rouse feelings in me hitherto unknown.
It was a pointed but ultimately feeble attempt to rouse more ire against the chief executive.
Manning began the attack on Russell, calling on all the churches in his bishopric to rouse their parishioners in opposition.
So if nothing else, endorsing candidates from the pulpit might rouse the dozing parishioner.
Their supporters can barely rouse themselves for regulation home league wins achieved at a stroll.
Luckily, he fell towards the house and was able to rouse the unsuspecting mate from his slumbers by head-butting the wall with his helmet.
Aurora was kneeling beside me, lightly sprinkling water on my face to rouse me.
The idea that term limits are necessary to unseat jaded officials and rouse lazy voters could not be more inapplicable in New York City now.
Our tester's black-trimmed cabin looks anonymously inoffensive at first, but a few areas will rouse persnickety observers.
Fuller doesn't rouse his audiences with smooth patter and startling revelations of abuse he's suffered.
So far, however, they have not been able to rouse their compatriots from their apathy.
As a writer I'm deeply apprised of the need to keep the words uncluttered of any urge to rouse easy emotions.
It would effectively rouse people's ardour to invest, and help to discourage the transfer of capital abroad.
Ralph tries to rouse her out of her deep sleep, but the doctors tell him it would take a miracle to wake her.
The thick windows distorted the rays of the morning sun, but the light was still enough to rouse Jantha from her sleep.
Harry Cat was all set for a long sleep in, but Dolly was determined to rouse me as soon as the light filtered through the blind.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In the latter one can seldom rouse the patient, the pupils are often unequal, and hemiplegia is present.
But about midafternoon, she seemed to rouse and come to herself and said she was hungry.
It seemed to rouse him from his dreamy state, and awakened him to a wild pitch of excitement.
He remembered that Alain was supposed to sing an aubade, a dawn song, in the street below to warn and rouse him.
And so the most valiant efforts have failed to rouse it from its invincible slumber.
Chicken Little and Katy admired and ohed and ahed until Marian was afraid they would rouse suspicion.
But let any one rouse his temper, and the Demon of the Mountains, who haunts the crags of Kazbek, could not rave more furiously.
It would be worse than useless to rouse the man, Anton, who slept over the stable.
Why not enter the reeds, as is our fashion in the Land of Kush, and rouse the lions from sleep in their own lair?
Do you wind me like a larum, only to rouse my own stilled soul for your diversion?
But Felicien had discovered one way in which he could rouse her, and he took advantage of it.
If she could rouse herself to try to save that girl it would be the best thing she could do.
To rouse Burke's genius to its noblest utterance, there must needs be a suffering which he could personify and dramatise.
These completed, he sank into a state of torpor from which nothing seemed to rouse him.
The earliest of the Greek elegists, Callinus and Tyrtaeus, use elegy to rouse a warlike spirit in sinking hearts.
And with a Godspeed Walter hurried off to rouse the neighbors to the rescue.
Roudier and Granoux came to rouse him from this state of beatitude.
Jean ran to rouse Dr. Gilbert while Deutsch got his master to a couch.
The attempt of Captain Bonneville to rouse the war spirit of the Nez Perces, and prompt them to retaliation, was ardently seconded by Kosato.
Not even the demands of telegraphy will rouse them to robust activity.
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