bestir
Example Sentences
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It took a lot to bestir Angelenos from their bungalows and Buicks, but their throats felt like sandpaper, and their chests hurt like the blazes.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
If the United States needs workers and desperate people in flight want to work, as Mr. Thiessen correctly argued, then Congress should bestir itself and reform the legal immigration system.
From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2022
But before Americans bestir themselves to act, they must come to understand that the threat is real and the danger is here.
From Salon • Oct. 8, 2021
This dual release will test the willingness of lockdown-weary audiences to bestir themselves from their by now severely dented couch cushions to see what the trade press still calls, with touching hopefulness, an “event picture.”
From Slate • Jun. 29, 2021
What were the odds that the people running this school would actually bestir themselves to make room for Jesse?
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
