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
Will they bestir themselves to action, or simply shrug their shoulders and accept what is already happening?
From Salon • Aug. 4, 2021
It was not and Northampton's comeback will bestir them ahead of next Sunday's play-off at Saracens.
From The Guardian • May 4, 2013
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.
