Example sentences for: arouse

How can you use “arouse” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "If the American air raids that killed and injured tens of people near Najaf cannot arouse the Arab conscience from its ten-year slumber, it would be best to consider that conscience dead," the paper said.

  • "In addition to the problems that his appointment might arouse, it can also be seen as a signal to the right-wing section of the government that its position will be given full expression in the summit talks."

  • While staying in Cape Town with a family of Dutch colonists, Dixon is set upon by its three young daughters, whose mission is to arouse him to the point where he'll want to mate with their black slave, thereby producing a light-skinned offspring.

  • The result is to arouse a sense of mystery.

  • Certainly some of his definitions--really, short moral tracts--cannot fail to arouse a condescending smile today, so quaint do they seem across a distance of 165 years.


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