Roused can be categorized as a verb.
Verb |
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| rouse - cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks" | ||
| rouse - cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." | ||
| rouse - force or drive out; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M." | ||
| rouse - become active; "He finally bestirred himself" |
| # | Sentence | ||
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| 1. | verb | We were roused at daybreak by the whistle of a train. | |
| 2. | verb | The cry roused me from my sleep. | |
| 3. | verb | The sound roused her from sleep. | |
| 4. | verb | I was roused by the sound of a bell. | |
| 5. | verb | He is a lion when roused. | |
| 6. | verb | He was roused by a loud knocking at the door. | |
| 7. | verb | He was roused by a knocking at the door. | |
| 8. | verb | Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves. | |
| 9. | verb | "Thus roused, her friends she gathers. All await / her summons, who the tyrant fear or hate. / Some ships at hand, chance-anchored in the bay / they seize and load them with the costly freight, / and far off o'er the deep is borne away / Pygmalion's hoarded pelf. A woman leads the way." | |
| 10. | verb | Roused by these words, long since the sire of Troy / yearned, like his friend, their comrades to surprise / and burst the cloud. | |
| 11. | verb | It was only when I touched his arm that he roused himself with a violent start and stepped out of the carriage. | |
| 12. | verb | I rang the bell and roused the house. | |
| 13. | verb | The slogan was designed to rouse the people. | |
| 14. | verb | Even the knowledge that he had succeeded where the police of three countries had failed, and that he had outmanoeuvred at every point the most accomplished swindler in Europe, was insufficient to rouse him from his nervous prostration. | |
| 15. | verb | Juda is a lion's whelp: to the prey, my son, thou art gone up: resting thou hast couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him? |
| Sentence | |
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| verb | |
| We were roused at daybreak by the whistle of a train. | |
| The cry roused me from my sleep. | |
| The sound roused her from sleep. | |
| I was roused by the sound of a bell. | |
| He is a lion when roused. | |
| He was roused by a loud knocking at the door. | |
| He was roused by a knocking at the door. | |
| Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves. | |
| "Thus roused, her friends she gathers. All await / her summons, who the tyrant fear or hate. / Some ships at hand, chance-anchored in the bay / they seize and load them with the costly freight, / and far off o'er the deep is borne away / Pygmalion's hoarded pelf. A woman leads the way." | |
| Roused by these words, long since the sire of Troy / yearned, like his friend, their comrades to surprise / and burst the cloud. | |
| It was only when I touched his arm that he roused himself with a violent start and stepped out of the carriage. | |
| I rang the bell and roused the house. | |
| The slogan was designed to rouse the people. | |
| Even the knowledge that he had succeeded where the police of three countries had failed, and that he had outmanoeuvred at every point the most accomplished swindler in Europe, was insufficient to rouse him from his nervous prostration. | |
| Juda is a lion's whelp: to the prey, my son, thou art gone up: resting thou hast couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him? | |