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stirred up

ADJECTIVE
  1. emotionally aroused

How To Use stirred up In A Sentence

  • “When I mentioned Mr. Snow’s name belowdecks it stirred up quite a fuss,” she said. The Berrybender Narratives
  • Of course the 'nester' or 'punkin roller,' as we contemptuously called the small farmer, began sifting in here and there in spite of our guns, but he was only a mosquito bite in comparison with the trouble which our cow-punchers stirred up. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West
  • Both have maintained they have been hard-done by and both have stirred up a public furore over whether they are the victims of the justice system.
  • Former prime minister Ivan Kostov has stirred up further controversy on the Brady bond swop with a letter urging his successor Simeon Saxe-Coburg to call off the deal.
  • As for Spain, she was hard pressed; French and American emissaries had stirred up strife in her colonies; and affairs were most "ticklish" in San Domingo. William Pitt and the Great War
  • Even on 160 acres the fish ended up moving to within a few yards of the margins, driven onto the lee shore by the strong wind that stirred up the bottom into a rich soup of natural food.
  • I thought that friction would figure in to it somewhere, given that soap only lathers when stirred up by whatever means.
  • A hot dry wind stirred up small whirlwinds of dust and sand, forcing her to squint.
  • A stormier future stirred up by climate change will add to the mess. Times, Sunday Times
  • The memories stirred up by these compositions are very purposeful, if only half-formed.
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