be agitated
Example Sentences
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"I worry that if the patient appears to be agitated, you have to restrain them, but you cannot easily do it alone," she said.
From Reuters ● Dec. 26, 2022
Red could be agitated, angry, frustrated, while blue could be tired, down, depressed.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2022
It’s too small for instances when there will be multiple arrested people, some of whom will be agitated and distraught.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 3, 2019
But it suggests the ways in which ballet can be agitated and agitating, a space to process contemporary life, and maybe experience catharsis.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2018
It has thrown a freshness over the antiquity of our own history; and, on returning to it, we seem to possess the feelings, and to be agitated by the interests, of contemporaries.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli