astir

Example Sentences

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Animal spirits are astir after several decades of hibernation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

News reporters were astir and skipped this curtain scene.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2022

But there is something astir and it’s called elektrifizierung.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2017

And so it should be little surprise that passions are astir, decades later, over the fate of a mural that memorializes many of the neighborhood’s most treasured sons.

From Washington Times • Jun. 1, 2015

The settling of the wood floors, the wind astir in the jasmine, the deep released fragrance of the earth, the crow of an insomniac rooster.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez