Sample Sentences for
rouse
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  • After three or four hours, I can't help it, I have to rouse Peeta because I can't keep my eyes open.  (source)
    rouse = awaken
  • The scuffing of her feet was enough to rouse him.  (source)
  • We can rouse them with a simple mating call.  (source)
    rouse = excite
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  • It seemed I had just closed my eyes when morning came and the kapos roused us up out of our beds.  (source)
    roused = woke
  • Kya wanted to holler out but knew not to rouse Pa, so opened the door and stood on the brick—'n'—board steps.  (source)
    rouse = awaken
  • His "living funeral" was a rousing success.†  (source)
  • But something rouses him.†  (source)
  • Officer Delinko gradually roused himself.  (source)
    roused = awakened
  • First my father would try to rouse me.  (source)
    rouse = awaken
  • Then the choir sang, and the preacher gave a rousing sermon.†  (source)
  • (He goes to MORE and rouses him) Wake up, Sir Thomas†  (source)
  • An orphan boy named Jemmy, the son of a rat-catcher, roused from his sleep.  (source)
    roused = awakened
  • In a moment, I'd blink and rouse from this beautiful dream, get out of bed, march down to the kitchen to eat breakfast with no one to talk to but Hassan.  (source)
    rouse = awaken
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