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How to use the word arouse in a Sentence?

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Babies have a very powerful mechanism to let us know when they are not happy. Usually, if a baby is confronted with a life-threatening situation, such as difficulty breathing during sleep because they are on their tummies, they will arouse and cry out. What this research shows is that some babies don't have this same robust arousal response.

Carmel Harrington

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Nothing can arouse the human spirit as challenges can, nothing can do the contrary as they can. You get to choose.

Goa Kerle

added by Goa_
2 years ago

These men - ..., the politicians, ... - use their position, their knowledge, and their power of disseminating misinformation to arouse and stimulate the latent instinct for bloodshed. When they have succeeded, they say they are reluctantly forced to war by the pressure of public opinion.

Bertrand Russell

added by Normando
3 years ago

In terms of his value, it's been smart not to overuse him, they've been using him in targeted digital appeals to constituencies that Democrats need to arouse in this election : young people and people of color, who did not come out in the numbers that Hillary Clinton had hoped four years ago.

David Axelrod

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I mean now, in hindsight, I'm like, he was trying to arouse me while talking to me -- under the guise of education, i'm thinking to Jessica Chambers, this is enough -- I want his hands off of me. ... And it went on for -- it seemed like an extended period of time.

Jessica Chambers

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and how nothing need arouse one’s irritation so long as one doesn’t make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.

Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
5 years ago

We bought four (as sculptures) because of the curiosity they arouse.

Wilfredo Santos

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Never arouse her if you can't satiate her in entirety!

RAMANA PEMMARAJU

added by anonymous
7 years ago

It is colossally difficult to compete properly with a company that is determined to neither pay taxes or fees, the rogue companies are not stupid. They put themselves low, but not so low as to arouse too much suspicion. It also means that their margins are incredible ... These dark forces are incredibly innovative.

Peter Lofgren

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

By decluttering our mind we can liberate mental forces that can inflame inspiring sparks of creativity. A singular flash or a particular flair on an unusual day can arouse a flood of stimulating thoughts. When we take ourselves off guard and our mind-set by surprise we can stir an array of inventive ideas. ("A flair of inspiration" )

Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

It's my intention to ensure that he has the whole story, i think it'll really arouse him, and once he understands, I wouldn't be surprised to see him heading out West.

Jerry DeLemus

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He asked me, 'What is the magic bean that would arouse our people to see exactly what was happening to them and how necessary the step of secession is?'.

Josh Doggrell

Found on CNN
9 years ago

A collection like this can't fail to arouse the passions of those who love automobiles, as well as art and history enthusiasts, never again, anywhere in the world, will such a treasure be unearthed.

Matthiu Lamoure

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Constantin Stanislavski

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

Charles Kingsley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Leon Trotsky

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

Agnes Repplier

added by anonymous
11 years ago

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Martin Luther King Jr.

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

William Sloane Coffin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Robert A. Heinlein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

Napoleon Bonaparte

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Elbert Hubbard

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Charles Schwab

added by anonymous
14 years ago

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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