bestir
Example Sentences
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If they bestirred themselves to ask “how is he right?” those questions and his answers didn’t make it into the broadcast.
From Los Angeles Times
If the United States needs workers and desperate people in flight want to work, as Mr. Thiessen correctly argued, then Congress should bestir itself and reform the legal immigration system.
From Washington Post
Travel across the plains of western Minnesota and you’ll find plenty of people who are bestirred by a new and often dark vision of America.
From Seattle Times
So, forgive me if the sudden rush on vasectomy clinics fails to bestir my gratitude.
From Washington Post
But before Americans bestir themselves to act, they must come to understand that the threat is real and the danger is here.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.