rousting
- present participle of roust.
Example Sentences
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Since then, a new mayor has accelerated the pace of rousting encampments.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2022
“We’re not going to solve anything by rousting people, but rather by dealing with it by creating a solution.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2018
The years of pounding London’s streets and rousting out its ghosts are gone.
From The Guardian ● May 20, 2017
Few authorities would want to be in a position of rousting a battered, 64-year-old man from his wheelchair.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2016
“Why on earth are you rousting me at this insane hour? Some of us are trying to sleep.”
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
