stirred up

ADJECTIVE
  1. emotionally aroused
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How To Use stirred up In A Sentence

  • And how scarifyingly he would laugh at me, if he knew what comic relics of old prudish reflexes are stirred up by the contact with his mere human livingness. The Brimming Cup
  • The unreclaimed United Nuclear waste pile stirred up bad feeling every day. Yellow Dirt
  • 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
  • Boortz stirred up fears that the virus was some sort of "bioterrorist" plot, asking, 'What better way to sneak a virus into this country than to give it to Mexicans?' Field negro
  • Blue canvas shoes stirred up small puffs of soil, their toes threadbare and worn from the years of kicking the earth. Possum Woman
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