Example sentences for: arouse

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

  • They give the coming elite an egalitarian sensibility, so when they rise to the top, they won't give off offensive vapors that might arouse class resentments in the middle and lower class.

  • 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.

  • Whereas fashion photography--in the '50s as always--aimed to arouse active lust for new goods, the clothes in '50s movies were so thoroughly surreal as to look quite unfit for normal wear, even if they were waitresses' uniforms or girl-next-door dresses.

  • The musical poetics arouse emotional sentiments about lost loves, nostalgia, and by extension about being Mexican.

  • "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."


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