Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2022

On Father’s Day 2002, two men showed up at the Pattersons’ California home around 4 a.m. and rousted him out of bed.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2022

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

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2022

By this point, Assange had been in the embassy, avoiding arrest, for more than four years and would be there for two more before authorities rousted him this past April.

From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2019

Inside I found a number of my colleagues who had been similarly rousted out of bed, and over the course of the night, more arrived; by morning we totaled forty in all.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela