be stirred up
Example Sentences
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Among other things, the silt at the bottom of the deep sea, which will be stirred up when extracting manganese nodules, for example, is a major concern.
From Science Daily • May 15, 2024
The wontons have a delicate wrapper cocooning an amalgam of fatty pork and snappy shrimp, just begging to be stirred up in their bowl of sauce.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2022
“Black and white folks thought that … it was going to stir up stuff that didn’t need to be stirred up in America,” Coleman said.
From Washington Times • Apr. 21, 2018
A secondary advantage is that age-old industrial pollutants won’t be stirred up from the river-floor sediment.
From The Guardian • Nov. 12, 2016
The public to whom they address themselves is more blasé than ignorant, and has more need to be stirred up than to be taught.
From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Filon, Augustin
