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stirred up

ADJECTIVE
  1. emotionally aroused

How To Use stirred up In A Sentence

  • Of course the 'nester' or 'punkin roller,' as we contemptuously called the small farmer, began sifting in here and there in spite of our guns, but he was only a mosquito bite in comparison with the trouble which our cow-punchers stirred up. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West
  • “When I mentioned Mr. Snow’s name belowdecks it stirred up quite a fuss,” she said. The Berrybender Narratives
  • The unreclaimed United Nuclear waste pile stirred up bad feeling every day. Yellow Dirt
  • Since global warming received its Hollywood makeover, such talk has stirred up controversy in scientific circles.
  • But maybe the residual effect of the lockout stirred up some emotions.
  • Pronouncing the words distinctly, the voice came from her breast in a deep stream, and each word reeked with boiling blood, stirred up by outrage, poisoned by offence and mightily demanding vengeance. The Man Who Was Afraid
  • The warmth and good feelings stirred up by godfather planet Jupiter will be good for your home life. The Sun
  • That helped explain why the river was so murky and why all the crossings were feculent quagmires of cow dung and mud, stirred up by scores of hooves and further churned by trucks, whose tracks laced the riverbanks for miles above and below me.
  • His letter to the newspaper about racialism in schools has stirred up a real hornet's nest.
  • Indeed, contrary to the hopes raised by some of Obama's admirers in the anti-war movement -- or the fears stirred up in his neoconservative bashers -- Obama was not a closet peacenik, an isolationist, a "third worldist" or an "Arabist;" and his positions on Arab-Israeli issues reflected a view shared by most of his predecessors in office. Leon T. Hadar: Obama's Mideast Policy: An Unpromising Drive Towards a Cost-Effective Pax Americana
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