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
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    The scuffing of her feet was enough to rouse him.  (source)
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    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
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    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
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    His "living funeral" was a rousing success.†  (source)
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    But something rouses him.†  (source)
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    Officer Delinko gradually roused himself.  (source)
    roused = awakened
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    First my father would try to rouse me.  (source)
    rouse = awaken
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    Then the choir sang, and the preacher gave a rousing sermon.†  (source)
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    Just before dusk, Herold rouses Booth and helps him down the stairs and up into the saddle.†  (source)
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    An orphan boy named Jemmy, the son of a rat-catcher, roused from his sleep.  (source)
    roused = awakened
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    He tiptoed out and hiked up the hill behind the cottage to rouse himself, then walked back, pulled on his workout clothes, and started for the runway.  (source)
    rouse = make more alert
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