stirring

Example Sentences

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San Antonio’s sensational big man is sending a stirring playoff message.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

I wonder how many people in this room are stirring the forces that will be ash in someone’s ice core 1,500 years from now.

From Slate • May 8, 2026

In a stirring speech earlier this year, he urged middle powers to join forces in the face of a new global reality defined by great power competition and a "fading" rules‑based order.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

Not long ago, a re-armament programme on this scale would have alarmed Germany's neighbours, stirring the ghosts of Europe's dark past.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

He shook his lasso of poison vines and insulted the monsters’ bad breath, stirring them into a fury.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan