How to Use rout in a Sentence

rout

1 of 2 verb

• Join all base parts and rout the rabbet for the screen; staple the screen in place.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 17 Apr. 2021
• Now move the cabinet out of the way and rout the two ¼-in.-deep dadoes into the plywood base.
  — Tim Faszer, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2021
• The host Cougars scored on their first offensive play jumped out to a 27-0 lead in the first quarter to rout the Cardinals.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 5 Nov. 2021
• After nerves on both sides subsided, the Eagles used a breakneck pace to rout the team from across town by a score of 88-44.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• The Cougars spotted the Beavers a 7-0 lead, then scored 37 consecutive points to rout Oregon State.
  — oregonlive, 4 Dec. 2022
• Even a fraction of the British force was enough to rout the Americans and send them slinking back to Fort Ticonderoga.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2021
• The Russian campaign stalled, and Ukrainian forces managed to rout Russian troops from the village in late March.
  — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2022
• Pro says: As the season is settling in it looks like the Blazers can rout the bad teams but can’t stay with or beat anyone more talented than them.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 14 Oct. 2021
• Charles Pierre ran for three touchdowns in the second half as Ocoee dominated the second half to rout host Olympia 34-13 in high school football on Friday night.
  — Lynn Ramsey, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2021
• This tutorial outlines how to use a router to rout the edge of a surface using a bit with a bearing located below the cutting edge.
  — Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2022
• Again My Life, interrupts gang fights where he’s outnumbered and works to rout corruption among the very powerful.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
• He also was accused of burning down a fort to rout a political enemy.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 2 July 2021
• The battle’s outcome will most likely be decided by the amount of firepower on each side — for Ukrainian forces to rout the Russian defenders or for the Russians to push the Ukrainians back to their old front-line positions.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2022
• The battle’s outcome will most likely be decided by the amount of firepower on each side — for Ukrainian forces to rout the Russian defenders, or for the Russians to push the Ukrainians back to their old frontline positions.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2022
• Michigan is expected to rout rival Michigan State to stay undefeated and on pace to chase Big Ten and national championship goals.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2022
• Lavrov argued that Russia was ready to negotiate a deal to end hostilities in March when Kyiv changed tack and declared its intention to rout Russia on the battlefield.
  — Susie Blann, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2022
• Beginning Saturday morning, hundreds of officers staged a maneuver to rout the trucks that had been blocking the approaches to the Ambassador Bridge all week.
  — New York Times, 13 Feb. 2022
• The military’s campaign to rout the Pakistani Taliban — a Frankenstein’s monster of its own making — has succeeded in eliminating the attacks that had once turned the country’s cities into killing fields.
  — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
• From early morning, warplanes pounded the international airport in an effort to rout R.S.F. fighters dug in there.
  — Cora Engelbrecht, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• Our communities should form alliances to help law enforcement officials to rout out the drug dealers, gangs, and other criminals who prey on our children and communities.
  — Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
• The holiday has intensified fears that Putin could exploit the occasion to expand his Feb. 24 invasion, after his initial drive failed to rout the Ukrainian military and topple the government.
  — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2022
• That can include creating apps that can respond to customers’ email queries, rout them to the right corporate division, troubleshoot issues with accounts, or fine-tune orders, billing and deliveries—all without a customer-service worker stepping in.
  — Angus Loten, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2022
• In a pre-recorded national address on Thursday (Jan. 6), Duterte told neighborhood officials to rout out and, if necessary, restrain or arrest unvaccinated people caught outside their homes.
  — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 7 Jan. 2022
• The judges also said lawmakers gerrymandered the congressional maps to Democrats’ favor, in violation of a 2014 constitutional amendment designed to rout out political gamesmanship in redistricting.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2022
• Join all base parts and rout the rabbet for the screen; staple the screen in place.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 17 Apr. 2021
• Now move the cabinet out of the way and rout the two ¼-in.-deep dadoes into the plywood base.
  — Tim Faszer, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2021
• The host Cougars scored on their first offensive play jumped out to a 27-0 lead in the first quarter to rout the Cardinals.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 5 Nov. 2021
• After nerves on both sides subsided, the Eagles used a breakneck pace to rout the team from across town by a score of 88-44.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• The Cougars spotted the Beavers a 7-0 lead, then scored 37 consecutive points to rout Oregon State.
  — oregonlive, 4 Dec. 2022
• Even a fraction of the British force was enough to rout the Americans and send them slinking back to Fort Ticonderoga.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2021

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rout

2 of 2 noun

• In Game 2, the Eagles torched the Thundering Herd for 18 hits in the rout.
  — al, 23 Apr. 2023
• With so many routs, Smith rarely plays three quarters in a game.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2023
• The rout kicked in for good in the third quarter, when the Monarchs built their biggest lead, 44-21.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Feb. 2024
• And then the rout began — and the Panthers now find themselves on the verge of NHL history.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2024
• Runs scored by the Colleyville Heritage softball team in the bottom of the fourth in a 17-0 rout of Denton Ryan.
  — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 22 Apr. 2023
• Had Timme never picked up that fourth foul, the Huskies likely still would have pulled away, but the call altered the tone of the game and sped up the rout.
  — Mark Anderson, ajc, 26 Mar. 2023
• The Yellow Jackets made big play after big play in that rout.
  — Staff Reports, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2023
• But Miami went to Boston and closed out the series with a rout.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
• Trea Turner hit a pair of home runs and Goldschmidt added another in the rout.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
• So the Fed has a tough decision to make: The bond-market rout could cool the economy enough for the Fed to hold rates steady.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN, 8 Oct. 2023
• Amid the rout, few corners of the market escaped damage.
  — Alice Gledhill, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023
• Those gains are still some way off from Friday’s market rout.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 27 Dec. 2023
• Point Loma could have won in a rout but had one touchdown called back by a penalty and dropped a sure TD pass in the end zone.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
• The All-Pro linebacker and signal-caller overcame a slow start Sunday to play well in the 42-19 road rout of the Eagles.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2023
• Advertisement The Rams won in a rout, so the miscues did not prove costly.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
• Sweden won all three of its group games, including a 5-0 rout of Italy in its final group match.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
• Well before the race ended, the Democratic groundswell turned into a rout.
  — Cathleen Decker, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• DeMarreon Baldwin had a double-double in the rout with 13 points and 12 rebounds.
  — al, 6 Feb. 2023
• Their rout of Charleston Southern on Saturday wasn’t enough to keep them ranked.
  — Ralph D. Russo, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
• The Dutch served notice early in the evening that wasn’t going to happen, scoring four times in the first 23 minutes of its 7-0 rout of Vietnam.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• Anything short of a 20-point rout would be a disappointment.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 28 Aug. 2023
• The market rout has raised concerns for the country's economy.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 2 Feb. 2023
• The Bengals had an impressive 27-10 road rout of the Bills in the divisional playoff.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 29 Jan. 2023
• Danny O’Malley’s grand slam sparks rout of rival Sandburg. 9.
  — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 2023
• From 68 teams down to two, there are always upsets, routs, and unforeseen storylines that come up, but who will win it all?
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 21 Mar. 2023
• Brady Cook struggled through the air, the ground game couldn’t get anything going and Kansas State ran roughshod offensively in a 40-12 rout that could have been worse.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 16 Sep. 2023
• Parker put the finishing touches on the rout midway through the final quarter and capped the scoring with a 41-yard touchdown run from Sparks.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 15 Sep. 2023
• David Pastrnak matched a career-high by scoring his team-leading 48th goal in the Bruins’ 7-0 rout of the Sabres in Buffalo....
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2023
• Gunn scored eight runs in the third to turn this game into a rout as the Titans rolled to a mercy-rule victory at South San Francisco in nonleague play.
  — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
• In Iowa women’s basketball’s rout of Minnesota last night, Caitlin Clark was unstoppable.
  — Trisha Garcia-Easto, Sacramento Bee, 29 Feb. 2024

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