Example sentences for: rousing

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

  • The rousing Dirty Harry (1971) is inarguably a template for the modern, right-wing vigilante picture, replete with digs at Miranda rights, due process, and the burgeoning civil-liberties movement.

  • John Woo, its director, has long demonstrated a rousing indifference to mere reality, and this movie--in which the characters routinely somersault through the air firing guns from both hands--is just his latest salute to impossible, operatic violence.

  • The picture has one of the oldest pulp plots in the business, last used to rousing effect in John Carpenter's Escape From New York (1981): A convict is sprung from prison, promised liberty by an untrustworthy government in return for accomplishing a morally ambiguous task that no one else can do, given a strict deadline, and ruthlessly monitored by his ex-captors.

  • That entire paragraph deserves a rousing chorus of "You're the Pits!"

  • Volunteers spent most of the summer digging the site up, and yesterday, Civil War re-enactment groups gave them a full Confederate burial, including a rousing rendition of "Dixie."


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