How to Use roust in a Sentence

roust

verb

• The soldiers were rousted from their beds before sunrise.
• Teenagers come and go in surly waves, and the LAPD rousts a man who has fallen asleep.
  — Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Magazine, 21 May 2018
• The cops had come and rousted him the night before from his spot beneath the pines.
  — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 1 Dec. 2019
• The chief, in turn, rousted Mayor Mike Grayson, who threw on a pair of shorts and hurried the few blocks from his house.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 20 July 2017
• People move on and off the street as they are rousted from nearby camps.
  — Molly Harbarger, OregonLive.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• And now a company is about to use the power granted to it in order to roust a group of nuns.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 July 2017
• About 30 of those rousted from the area accepted the city’s offer of a free week in a motel.
  — Mike Clary, Sun-Sentinel.com, 20 June 2017
• The idea hit him during one of the overnights at City Hall, McHenry said, when he was rousted by a city worker.
  — Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2017
• Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, who will help roust voters for the low-turnout primary.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2017
• There, organizers will scan the card and be able to see, in real time, who has voted — and roust those who haven’t.
  — Jim Wyss and Cody Weddle, miamiherald, 16 May 2018
• The officers rushed to roust nearby residents out of their homes and clear the avenue.
  — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2022
• Thomas was passed out behind the wheel and had to be rousted awake by the officers, TMZ reported.
  — oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2019
• The man earned his name, that's for sure, and used all his requisite skills in rousting the crowd for Queen Carolyn's triumphant entry.
  — The Masked Observer, AL.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• While the troops mounted into their trucks, a soldier knocked on the trailers around the garrison to roust North and the Fox cameraman.
  — Brett Murphy, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2019
• Encampments are rousted, spurring the people in them to move somewhere else.
  — Zoie Matthew, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 June 2018
• Among those living there is 62-year-old Joe Stenman, homeless for 20 years, who says he was rousted a few weeks ago.
  — Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 14 Apr. 2018
• This was a much more pleasant reason to be rousted up out of a nap than the alternative for Kemba Walker.
  — Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 8 Feb. 2018
• Then the two got the chance to chat when an early-morning fire alarm rousted the pair and their fellow tenants and temporarily left them outside.
  — Steve Bell, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2016
• The flight attendant had noticed our stalemate and offered to roust the man from my seat, but the situation felt too combustible to me, and 25C like too stupid a hill on which to die.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2021
• Ever since he was arrested and his home rousted by the feds, Stone has been trying to raise money for his legal defense.
  — Dan Sweeney, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• One night last year at an army barracks in Tehran, a tormented young conscript rousted his sergeant from bed and marched him outside at gunpoint.
  — Shashank Bengali, latimes.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• There are many signs that the Fitzgerald had almost no warning of the approaching collision: the fact that the captain was in his cabin and that no shipwide alarm had rousted sailors from their bunks.
  — New York Times, cleveland.com, 24 June 2017
• State troopers have repeatedly tried to roust the demonstrators, swooping in on late-night raids to seize their belongings and to arrest the activists.
  — Tim Elfrink, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2020
• 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.
  — Craig Timberg, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2019
• Boylen was like a double shot of espresso served to a team comfortable sipping chamomile tea, rousting everyone in a sleepy locker room to play harder and get tougher.
  — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• The city had been on edge after prosecutors declined to bring charges in 2014 against the officer who killed Dontre Hamilton, who had been asleep on a park bench when police were called to roust him.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 27 Aug. 2020
• The exception was the few mornings when our counsellors, seized by a spasm of conscience, would roust us from our tents and lead us on forced marches through the mountains, declaring that this was what summer camp was all about.
  — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
• Most became involved to roust Trump from office — nearly 2 out of 3 voters rejected him in favor of Democrat Joe Biden.
  — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 18 Jan. 2021
• On Tuesday, police went door-to-door in Hawaii to roust residents near two new volcanic vents emitting dangerous gases.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 9 May 2018
• On Wednesday night, just as the curlers squeezed in one last practice run, an announcer, joined by the plump panda that serves as the Olympic mascot, tried to roust the modest assembly of spectators sprinkled throughout the stands.
  — New York Times, 12 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024