bestir

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

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

So much for his father's certainty that Lord Walder would not bestir himself.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Even so, she eventually bestirs herself to tell Disciple that she wants a divorce.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2019

Almost nothing short of scandal ever bestirs the absentee owners to a concerted effort to exercise any real control over their company's affairs.

From Time Magazine Archive

While the federal government bestirs itself about alleged monopolies, the American Bar Association is suggesting an important amendment to the Clayton Act.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Now and then, one of the evening dailies bestirs itself to launch a crusade, e.g., the World-Telegram's recent series on slum landlords and university-student cheating.

From Time Magazine Archive

Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself nor has forethought for anything.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

If they bestirred themselves to ask “how is he right?” those questions and his answers didn’t make it into the broadcast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

Given the cornucopia of issues Americans have to select from each day, the recent firing and rehiring of the House of Representatives’ chaplain may not have bestirred many to form an opinion.

From Washington Post ● May 4, 2018

Slightly fewer than fifty-five per cent of all voting-age adults bestirred themselves to go to the polls.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2017

There is no amount of lawlessness we will not, at our convenience, argue was bestirred by someone else’s choices or selfness or lack of vigilance.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2015

Frodo and Sam returned to their beds and lay there in silence resting for a little, while men bestirred themselves and the business of the day began.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

In the Japanese Diet, Premier Yoshida will often drowse through the opposition speeches, sometimes bestirring himself to deal with questions: "I will not answer that."

From Time Magazine Archive

Evidently the Son of Heaven was bestirring himself on behalf of his unhappy people.

From Time Magazine Archive

Al- though this report was denied in Madrid, it remains as indicative of the feeling bestirring liberal Spaniards concerning the Royal House.

From Time Magazine Archive

IT was an occasion without precedent and another gauge of the new economic winds bestirring the Soviet Union.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sun flashed on the waves, on people bestirring themselves, opening dressing-cases, making such toilets as they could.

From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions