rouse
verb (used with object)
to bring out of a state of sleep, unconsciousness, inactivity, fancied security, apathy, depression, etc..
were rousing
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past progressiveof rouse.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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There were rousing cheers for Perez’s consecutive third-place finishes the last two years, but the home crowd wants more.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
The words were rousing but Scholten’s demeanour resonated defeat.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2018
His speeches were rousing, including one in 1940 that channeled Shakespeare’s St. Crispin’s Day speech in “Henry V”:
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2017
And the surprise: most of them were rousing and on-point.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 23, 2015
It was as if a threatening hand, piercing the grief, loneliness and dread that weighed on him, was pointing at him, as if the wind were rousing him with the cry: 'Beware!'
From Selected Polish Tales by Marie Busch
