stirring
Example Sentences
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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
Strikes continued to pummel targets in Iran on Sunday, at times stirring up the already emotional crowds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026
Grandma already had a pot of milk on the woodstove, and now she was stirring in the chocolate.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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