arouse - use in sentences

Object

  • suspicion: Per cent rise around pounds to in the ignition to arouse suspicions.
  • ire: It is difficult to think of anything more likely to arouse the ire of the locals than intimately searching their homes for weapons.

Modifying Another Word

  • inevitably: A brutal battering, or the prospect of one, will just as inevitably arouse panic fear of another sort.

Object

  • controversy: The above two topics are the ones which have aroused the most controversy.
  • indignation: This meeting aroused great indignation among the supporters of the other candidates.
  • hostility: He was admired and feared, rather than loved, by many; in some he aroused bitter hostility.

Preposition: in

  • mind: It is designed to arouse in the mind a very clear picture of being in a certain place.

Modifying Another Word

  • sexually: Viagra doesn't give you an erection without being sexually aroused.
  • instantly: This also came from Japan and, being based on numbers, instantly aroused my curiosity.
  • thoroughly: Alarmed, the Trust tried to unload; militant womanhood, thoroughly aroused, scorned compromise.
  • immediately: Much to the delight of the bank's directors, the new service immediately aroused great interest from the national media.

Used with why or when

  • when: But his curiosity was aroused when he looked at the outside of the boat, which was gleaming and obviously well cared for.

Preposition: from

  • sleep: His disordered dress showed that he had been hastily aroused from sleep.

Preposition: by

  • death: Achilles, finally aroused by the death of his friend, returns to the fray and kills Hector.
  • word: Dreamtime website Few bands confound the stereotyped expectations aroused by the words ' free improvisation ' as thoroughly as Dreamtime.

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