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How to use the word STIRRING in a Sentence?

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We have seen far too much political violence lately and all of these events are powerful reminders that stirring up fear, heightening tensions, and stoking hatred can have devastating consequences.

Javier Martinez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As a labor and delivery nurse who helps mothers to bring babies into this world, I find it outrageous that Mount Sinai would compromise care for our NICU babies in any way. We already have NICU nurses caring for twice as many sick babies as they should, it’s unconscionable that Mount Sinai refuses to address unsafe staffing in our NICU and other units of the hospital but is now stirring fears about our NICU babies in contract negotiations.

Matt Allen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Never have I seen a man with a fighter plane do what Nishizawa would do with his zero. His acrobatics were all at once breathtaking, brilliant, totally unpredictable, impossible, and heard stirring to witness

Saburo sakai

added by kael_b
3 years ago

President Trump is a racist who stokes racial tensions. President Trump has been stirring racial tensions since President Trump got in This White House. Why, as Jacob's uncle, would I want to talk to him ? Our focus is on Jacob and healing the community.

Justin Blake

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Jacksonville Jaguars coach Doug Marrone tried to take full advantage of the unique opportunity, sitting at the dinner table and stirring up conversations with Jacksonville Jaguars coach Doug Marrone family on a regular basis. This is a time that I feel like I can make up for maybe some of the things I feel guilty about.

Jacksonville Jaguars

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

In the House, Elijah was our North Star, he was a leader of towering character and integrity, whose stirring voice and steadfast values pushed the Congress and country to rise always to a higher purpose.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Boris Johnson has decided to be a populist politician. That's a very dangerous thing to do, because stirring up people against parliament is not going to solve the country's problems. It will create more anger, more tension.

Dominic Grieve

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Cryptocurrency traders were reinvigorated by Facebook's launch of their own digital coin and momentum appears to be stirring up fresh new investors, bitcoin skeptics are cautious in trying to stop this surge and may look for the next key resistance level which is $15,000.

Edward Moya

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The trip is more about stirring other interlocutors into renewed talks/concessions.

Robert Kelly

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Aziz is highly critical of the Pakistani government but Islamabad knows he commands a sizable following and claim they have no legal grounds to arrest or convict him. Ultimately, they’ve decided it’s best to avoid stirring the hornet’s nest, even if means quietly allowing the swarm to proliferate, ideally, Pakistan would pass legislation or criminal justice reforms outlawing the type of hate speech espoused by Aziz and his ilk, and then deal with them through the appropriate legal mechanisms.

Jeff Smith

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I couldn't miss the (parade). That was a really stirring moment for me. It's hard to explain the emotions I got walking into that stadium, and obviously that carried over to today, i was pumped up from the word go.

John Millman

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The private equity owners may be stirring the pot in an attempt to lure a bidder.

Geoff Davis

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Today, with the political climate, you never know, people are inflamed. There is some Islamophobia. Even the presidential candidates are stirring it up.

Osama Siblani

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The features that jump out so clearly represent the influence of ocean eddies and physical stirring on the concentration of phytoplankton pigments and, possibly, colored dissolved organic matter.

Michael Behrenfeld

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Thank you, friends, for everything you're doing. Thank you Phil Burress, the sleeping giant is stirring.

Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Putin is not a good strategist. He is stirring up a hornet's nest of Sunni Muslims who will hold a grudge against him, he already had an internal problem with Islamist extremism and he now has an external problem since ISIS was responsible for the Sinai plane bombing.

Strobe Talbott

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

On the ground, we know the elements who are stirring things up, who are intrumentalizing and feeding this insecurity, we know that former dignitaries in Central African Republic want to be back in charge.

President Catherine Samba-Panza

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They are stirring things up.

Abdallah Soueidan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It really is a time capsule of a different era, when these things were very stirring, patriotic and treasured.

Arlan Ettinger

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If Counterterrorism John Miller factored that, plus the events in Texas the other day where violence stirring around the same issue happened, and there are calls on social media for more violence around that issue against the same targets, this becomes a very obvious place to have a lot of protection.

Charlie Hebdo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There's dissatisfaction, you can feel it, and people are stirring for change.

Lynn Su-lin

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

[The U.S. victory in Gulf war was] a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.

Dan Quayle, 4/11/91 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.

Unknown

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andr Gide

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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