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Roused in sentence

175 examples of Roused in a sentence

When they came for victims in the night, did you sleep through it or were you roused?
His awful singing voice woke a nearby crane, whose screeching cries roused the Pohjolan horde.
The abuse is implied, for the most part, not seen, and roused a lot of passion in me to help abused children.
Infrastructure projects like the Berlin to Baghdad railway roused tensions among the Great Powers.
The region’s nationalist ghosts are being roused from their slumber.
Less than five months before his violent death, Kennedy roused a huge gathering of Germans in the center of Berlin, the frontier of the Cold War, to almost hysterical enthusiasm with his famous words, “Ich bin ein Berliner.”
COVID-19 Trumps NationalismNEW YORK – I was recently walking along East 29th Street in Manhattan, after visiting a friend at Bellevue Hospital, when I was roused from my thoughts by a middle-aged white male screaming at an old Chinese man, “Get the fuck out of my country, you piece of Chinese shit!”
The rustle of the Countess's silk dress roused him.
Vasily Lukich roused him.
She imagined that he had ceased to love her, and she was almost in despair: which roused in her a feeling of peculiar excitement.
And every time when the screams that came from the bedroom roused him from momentary forgetfulness he succumbed to the same strange error that had possessed him in the first moments: every time, on hearing the scream, he jumped up and ran to justify himself, but recollected on the way that he was not to blame and that he longed to protect and help her.
He roused himself, just when the Countess Lydia Ivanovna uttered the words: 'He is asleep.'
The cruelty with which he annihilated the world which she had so painfully constructed for herself to be able to endure her hard life, the injustice of his accusation that she was dissembling and unnatural, roused her indignation.
The idea that Catherine must be there had roused a new ardour within him, the desire to be applauded in her presence.
She called on the lawyers, the president, remembered when bills fell due, got them renewed, and at home ironed, sewed, washed, looked after the workmen, paid the accounts, while he, troubling himself about nothing, eternally besotted in sleepy sulkiness, whence he only roused himself to say disagreeable things to her, sat smoking by the fire and spitting into the cinders.
Unconsciously, Madame de Renal uttered cries which roused her maid.
'Render yourselves worthy of the Pope's bounties by the sanctity of your lives, by your obedience, be like a rod in his hands,' he went on, 'and you will attain to a superb position where you will be in supreme command, under no man's control; a permanent position, of which the Government pays one third of the emoluments, and the faithful, roused by your preaching, the other two thirds.'
Her refusal to use the _tu_ form, that abrupt method of breaking so tender a bond, and one upon which he still reckoned, roused Julien's amorous transport to a frenzy.
He called for help and roused the whole house.
He would begin magnificently with a wild, full, come-to-the-battle sort of a note, that quite roused you.
These considerations, with the approaching footsteps of his pursuers, roused him to new exertions.
Her voice roused the peddler, and a new idea seemed to strike him.
cried Betty, who was easily roused.
The report of the firearms at first roused the family to the sense of a new danger, and but a moment elapsed before the leader, and one more of the gang, entered the room.
The shrieks of Katy and the terrified consort of Caesar, together with the noise and uproar in the adjacent apartment, first roused Miss Peyton and Isabella to a sense of their danger.
There was such a mixture of indifference and irony in his exhortations that a few paused in surprise - more joined them, until, roused by the example of the trooper, and stimulated by their own spirit, they demanded to be led against their foe once more.
The interruption roused him.
He sat down and tried to seem gay, but it was up-hill work; it roused no smile, no response, and he lapsed into silence and let his heart sink down to the depths.
But it roused only faint enthusiasm, which faded out, with no reply.
She roused up, now, with a vindictive cast in her eye, and gave her plaited tails a shake and said she knew what _she'd_ do.
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