stir
Example Sentences
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The shallow furrows fail to stir emotion and are about as exciting as the irrigation channels they bring to mind.
I was washing the lunch dishes in the kitchen, but I ran through the dining room and down the steps before the rest of the family could stir.
From Literature
At last Charlie seemed to stir at the salary of seventeen dollars a week for the threshing season, and keep.
From Literature
Many times he’d licked his mother’s muzzle to ask her please to sick up some food for him to eat, but she didn’t stir.
From Literature
“It’s a bittersweet surrender that you cannot predict anything,” McCraney said, adding that the best he can do is follow his instincts toward scripts that stir something within himself.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
