be stirred up
Example Sentences
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Among other things, the silt at the bottom of the deep sea, which will be stirred up when extracting manganese nodules, for example, is a major concern.
From Science Daily • May 15, 2024
The wontons have a delicate wrapper cocooning an amalgam of fatty pork and snappy shrimp, just begging to be stirred up in their bowl of sauce.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2022
“Black and white folks thought that … it was going to stir up stuff that didn’t need to be stirred up in America,” Coleman said.
From Washington Times • Apr. 21, 2018
A secondary advantage is that age-old industrial pollutants won’t be stirred up from the river-floor sediment.
From The Guardian • Nov. 12, 2016
Gabrielle being too crushed to make a motion must be stirred up with an eleemosynary stab.
From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis