Examples of rousing in a Sentence
She was met with a rousing reception.
a rousing rendition of our national anthem
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This boundary-breaking dance drama follows Baby (Jennifer Grey) and Johnny (Patrick Swayze) in a wrong-side-of-the-tracks romantic entanglement that all starts with a rousing night of bumping and grinding.
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Madeleine Janz, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
Certainly, the film doesn’t deliver any rousing sense of justice like in, say, director Jennifer Fox’s child-abuse-story The Tale.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2025
There was another threepeat in the women’s 4x100m thanks to the quadrant of Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, Twanisha Terry, Kayla White and Sha’Carri Richardson before a rousing finish from reigning Olympic 100m champion Noah Lyles saw the US defeat Canada in the corresponding men’s event.
—Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025
Though Woollcott died unexpectedly just a little more than a month before publication, the book was a rousing success, going through multiple printings.
—Paul Slovak
september 16, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
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Madeleine Janz, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
Certainly, the film doesn’t deliver any rousing sense of justice like in, say, director Jennifer Fox’s child-abuse-story The Tale.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2025
There was another threepeat in the women’s 4x100m thanks to the quadrant of Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, Twanisha Terry, Kayla White and Sha’Carri Richardson before a rousing finish from reigning Olympic 100m champion Noah Lyles saw the US defeat Canada in the corresponding men’s event.
—Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025
Though Woollcott died unexpectedly just a little more than a month before publication, the book was a rousing success, going through multiple printings.
—Paul Slovak
september 16, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for rousing
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“Rousing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rousing. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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