astir

Example Sentences

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Animal spirits are astir after several decades of hibernation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

News reporters were astir and skipped this curtain scene.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2022

But there is something astir and it’s called elektrifizierung.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2017

And so it should be little surprise that passions are astir, decades later, over the fate of a mural that memorializes many of the neighborhood’s most treasured sons.

From Washington Times • Jun. 1, 2015

As though he were serenading the rising sun, Jack went on blowing till the shelters were astir and the hunters crept to the platform and the littluns whimpered as now they so frequently did.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding