be agitated
Example Sentences
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"I worry that if the patient appears to be agitated, you have to restrain them, but you cannot easily do it alone," she said.
From Reuters ● Dec. 26, 2022
Red could be agitated, angry, frustrated, while blue could be tired, down, depressed.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2022
The man is placated, but he’ll be agitated further when he happens upon her entertaining the aforementioned filmmaker.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2020
Objects at the furthest range of his vision, he writes, seem “to quiver or be agitated until I have the illusion that I am being signaled to or winked at,” demanding attention be paid.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2018
To add to the difficulties and dangers, Paris was beginning to be agitated by well-founded rumors of Jay's injurious negotiations in England, and a coldness towards Monroe was setting in.
From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Paine, Thomas