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Definition of "rousted" [rousted]

  • Simple past tense and past participle of roust. (verb)

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Use "rousted" in a sentence
  • "From the car left in Times Square on a busy Saturday night loaded with a home made bomb, to witnesses noticing the smoke and flashes of light inside, to the New York mayor being rousted from a black-tie dinner in DC to rush home, to the breathless, last-minute race to the airport to nab the suspect before he went airborne to Pakistan."
  • "We've never been rousted from a place we've already checked into."
  • "Acting under Supreme Court order, in the early morning, soldiers rousted the President and placed him -- still in his pajamas -- on a plane to Costa Rica."
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