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
By the spring of 2015, Seitz feared that the longer they deliberated, the more bad blood would be stirred up.
From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2018
“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
Oh when they hear of all the Lord’s dealing, may their spirits be stirred up within them to pray that I may be filled with him who filleth all in all.
From Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 by Scott, A. J. (Alexander John)
