stirring

Example Sentences

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In 2016, workers cut down dozens of oaks trees on land managed by Justin to make room for new grape plantings, stirring up controversy.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

These films break through a dense documentary market with their stirring portraits of wars, political leaders, activists, artists, musicians, movements, and occasionally, regular people like you and me.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

As a result, wrinkle structures are uncommon in rocks younger than about 540 million years old, when animal life rapidly diversified and began actively stirring ocean sediments.

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026

The line, he recalled, instantly transported him back to his childhood in Cardiff, stirring "all of those feelings of not being Welsh, of being different. It struck a nerve... it was really raw".

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

Klaus pictured Mr. Poe arriving in his car and putting the Baudelaire orphans inside, to go somewhere else, and felt a stirring of hope.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket