How to Use rout in a Sentence

rout

1 of 2 noun
  • In sports, that’s called a rout.
    — Rich Karlgaard, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Game, set, match, and the rout was on.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 27 May 2026
  • This, at least, was not a rout like Week 1.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Allen wasn’t sacked, hit once, in a 26-7 rout.
    — Tim Graham, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The rout was sparked by a sell-off in tech, led by software stocks.
    — Sean Conlon, CNBC, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The Wolves backed up his talk with a Game 3 rout.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 25 Apr. 2026
  • With so many routs, Smith rarely plays three quarters in a game.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Those gains are still some way off from Friday’s market rout.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The match seemed in danger of becoming a rout.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 27 June 2026
  • James was subbed off midway through the fourth as the rout continued.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The level of rout was the only question.
    — Greg Cote september 7, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
  • O'Hearn followed with his eighth homer of the season, and the rout was on.
    — CBS News, 14 May 2026
  • The rout continued in the second half.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Fans could be forgiven at that point for wondering if the rout was on.
    — The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 2 May 2026
  • UConn responded with an epic rout three weeks later.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Massie ended up winning his primary in a rout.
    — Russell Berman, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Japan has a couple of draws and a 4-0 rout of Tunisia to show for itself so far.
    — ABC News, 27 June 2026
  • The Yellow Jackets made big play after big play in that rout.
    — Staff Reports, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2023
  • James scored on a jump shot just seconds into the third quarter and the rout continued.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2026
  • The soldiers had little time to prepare; the retreat turned into a rout.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Brink’s goal was part of the Wild’s 5-0 rout of the Utah Mammoth.
    — Michael Russo, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Nothing, though, quite rivals the rout rippling through stock and credit markets this week.
    — Brody Ford, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • In matchup that didn’t have much separation for most of the game, the back-and-forth contest ended in a rout.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2026
  • But Miami went to Boston and closed out the series with a rout.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
  • The market rout has raised concerns for the country's economy.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 2 Feb. 2023
  • That rout was due to fears of waning demand for chips coming out of South Korea.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 24 June 2026
  • Trea Turner hit a pair of home runs and Goldschmidt added another in the rout.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Everything went right for Denver in a rout of the Cowboys.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The Mets scored multiple runs in five of eight innings in that 13-5 rout.
    — David O'Brien, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Nate Adkins injured his knee in the fourth quarter of the Dallas rout.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 29 Oct. 2025

rout

2 of 2 verb
  • Join all base parts and rout the rabbet for the screen; staple the screen in place.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Often the highest lines will be for matches that are expected to be routs.
    — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 11 June 2026
  • He also was accused of burning down a fort to rout a political enemy.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 2 July 2021
  • Coastal San Diego’s charms give the Padres a much better chance to rout the Snakes in the ballpark-profits game.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The Twins went on to rout the Rangers behind a season-high 17 hits, including two from Clemens.
    — Dan Hayes, New York Times, 17 June 2026
  • This tutorial outlines how to use a router to rout the edge of a surface using a bit with a bearing located below the cutting edge.
    — Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2022
  • After nerves on both sides subsided, the Eagles used a breakneck pace to rout the team from across town by a score of 88-44.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The host Cougars scored on their first offensive play jumped out to a 27-0 lead in the first quarter to rout the Cardinals.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Even a fraction of the British force was enough to rout the Americans and send them slinking back to Fort Ticonderoga.
    — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2021
  • Cassie Hall scored two of her three goals in the first period and Wisconsin went on to rout Minnesota 6-1.
    — Mike Cook, Twin Cities, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The Russian campaign stalled, and Ukrainian forces managed to rout Russian troops from the village in late March.
    — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Yet those soldiers and sailors had to stretch across a vast global canvas, leaving fewer than three in ten of them to try to rout the insurgents in North America.
    — Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • However, the host 49ers rebounded to rout Miami, who had entered the game 8-3.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2026
  • That largely reflects the sentiments of most — though not all — of a dozen people who came to the football stadium to see the Tigers rout the Yankton Bucks.
    — David Folkenflik, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The Cougars spotted the Beavers a 7-0 lead, then scored 37 consecutive points to rout Oregon State.
    — oregonlive, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Arkansas started hot, scoring a 53-yard touchdown on the second offensive snap, and went on to rout the Red Wolves 56-14.
    — Erick Taylor, Arkansas Online, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Michigan is expected to rout rival Michigan State to stay undefeated and on pace to chase Big Ten and national championship goals.
    — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Charles Pierre ran for three touchdowns in the second half as Ocoee dominated the second half to rout host Olympia 34-13 in high school football on Friday night.
    — Lynn Ramsey, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Beginning Saturday morning, hundreds of officers staged a maneuver to rout the trucks that had been blocking the approaches to the Ambassador Bridge all week.
    — New York Times, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Lavrov argued that Russia was ready to negotiate a deal to end hostilities in March when Kyiv changed tack and declared its intention to rout Russia on the battlefield.
    — Susie Blann, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2022
  • ZaKiyah Johnson scored 16 points, Mikaylah Williams added 12 and LSU bounced back from a midweek loss to rout Auburn.
    — Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2026
  • According to the military, security forces launched an operation in the province’s district of Barkhan to rout out insurgents that Islamabad claims are backed by India.
    — ABC News, 13 May 2026
  • The military’s campaign to rout the Pakistani Taliban — a Frankenstein’s monster of its own making — has succeeded in eliminating the attacks that had once turned the country’s cities into killing fields.
    — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The Dutch monarchs, who were joined by their daughter Princess Ariane, began the day by watching Holland rout Sweden 5-1 in a Group F match.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 21 June 2026
  • Angels rout the Tigers Grayson Rodriguez pitched five strong innings as the Angels beat the Detroit Tigers 7-1 on Thursday for their fifth victory in six games.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • Germany did rout newcomer Curacao 7-1, Qatar was trounced 6-0 by Canada, and Haiti was eliminated after two matches.
    — Tales Azzoni, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
  • The battle’s outcome will most likely be decided by the amount of firepower on each side — for Ukrainian forces to rout the Russian defenders or for the Russians to push the Ukrainians back to their old front-line positions.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Jesuit scored 13 runs on seven hits in a 37-minute bottom of the first and went on to rout Richardson 20-0 in five innings as James Jorgensen pitched a no-hitter and struck out 12.
    — Greg Riddle, Dallas Morning News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The battle’s outcome will most likely be decided by the amount of firepower on each side — for Ukrainian forces to rout the Russian defenders, or for the Russians to push the Ukrainians back to their old frontline positions.
    — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2022
  • This was during the saggy middle of the war, when then-President Barack Obama was looking to bolster US forces in Afghanistan and decisively rout the Taliban once and for all.
    — Sofie Buckminster, semafor.com, 16 Nov. 2025

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