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How to use the word agitated in a Sentence?

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Social media companies have stumbled onto a stubborn, devastating fact, the way to get kids to linger on the platforms and to maximize profit is to upset them — to make them outraged, to make them agitated, to make them scared, to make them vulnerable, to make them feel helpless, anxious [and] despondent.

Brian Schatz

Found on CNN
12 months ago

I certainly watched how agitated people got when they understood that the White House had changed their position, and you can understand, we’re all sort of working off the same sheet of music, usually.

Elissa Slotkin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[The] crunch affecting health insurance is only a stone’s throw away from the larger one affecting pensions, and workers could edgily become agitated over poor pension and health care security, it’s possible protests by elderly citizens will spread.

George Magnus

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Your mind is like this water my friend, when it is agitated it becomes difficult to see, but if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.

Master oogway

added by MasterOogway
1 year ago

Pre-COVID, even the pickiest people didn’t pay that much attention to tiny details like how the corners of the sheets on their beds were folded or if the bacon was semi-crispy or very crispy, now, they have a lot more time [at home] and are more agitated than they have been. They notice every little thing.

David Crimmins

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

No Mo’ Friendz •I finally found peace no mo’ friends, Let tha respect end so much watered down love I had tah get rid of;— let tha memories fly like a mornin’ Dove, shush!— Wit’ a push an shove tha game so fake I had tah turn my back, Same nicca’z still talkin down but I’m just laughing at cha, ain’t no loyalty;— muh nicca’z get yo cash up! now dat everybody from tha block all grownup, some Homies went left others went right;— who can ya trust in this life? •it’s been nothin nice I had no choice but tah fight, despite I had tah thug it out all day an night, why dey still focused on competing I got my mind right tryna make my future bright all I got is faith in my eyesight, Got a couple of potnas I ain’t never had uh real friend;— Fock it let tha money win we all lost in a life of sin, Befo’ it’s over dey gon feel me worldwide, applied da pressure;— now dat they agitated motherfockas can’t stop my prophecy, they should’ve showed hospitality cause some of us come an go, this is information about tha good an bad happy an tha sad R.I.P to da homies who passed, Real life I write a whole rap on my Facebook page piece it together like I’m gettin’ paid, I can feel God tellin’ me don’t be afraid, People please don’t look at me funny because my words a man-made, I’m in tha Middle of a balance everybody that I know throwin shade; At Me! but this hard life;— I will never trade, I been dreamin uh ‘bout uh bag fa’ while this freestyle-hustle came wit’ my lifestyle, it’s been hostile but it’s worth da while, I grew up wit’ sum’ real-nicca’z an sum’ fake-nicca’z to;— don’t even ask me who, my new alias name bloomin’ like uh rose out of da blue, Now throw tha deuce! I erased dat nicca Slick an change my name tah MillYentei now I’m feelin brand new, Used to want a happy home, but Couple of years ago I got lost in da Hennessey an smokin’ weed an money was all dat I could see, i’mma changed man but it’s still hard tah give uh fock, when ya feelin like you got no Luck on top of dat my mind feelin’ stuck, it’s been rough but I keep my head up. •I finally found peace no mo’ friends, Let tha respect end so much watered down love I had tah get rid of;— let da memories fly like a mornin’ Dove, shush!— Wit’ a push an shove tha game so fake I had tah turn my back, Same Niggah’z still talkin down but I’m just laughing at cha, ain’t no loyalty;— muh nicca’z get yo cash up! now dat everybody from tha block all grownup, some Homies went left others went right;— who can ya trust in this life?.... From the “Book of Riffz” -MillYentei_DY

Deshawn Yeldell

added by MillYentei.L.D.Y
3 years ago

Be educated, be organized and be agitated.

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

added by subodhchakranarayan1
3 years ago

My heart is agitated. It feels like it wants to stop.

Reiner Fernandez

Found on CNN
3 years ago

From a law enforcement standpoint, it had nothing to do with her being agitated as you may have seen on her recording.

Chip Lewis

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It really gets people very, very agitated, that includes things like agitation, effects on all the typical systems of your body, increased blood pressure, pulse, sometimes even your temperature.

Dan Castellanos

Found on CNN
5 years ago

To the extent that this decision gets government workers agitated and undercuts their trust in their employer, they might resist reform efforts and that could make it harder to control costs or restructure.

David Merriman

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There was a lot of fuss. I was agitated and there were a lot of people starting to stare, i did n’t understand why were treated like that. It was so ridiculous. It was like saying a dog is a cat.

Natalia Rutkowski

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I was shaking and I literally felt like I was sweating and agitated, my mum was teary. United Airlines was just United Airlines. I had never been so disrespected and mistreated and embarrassed.

Natalia Rutkowski

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

(The Erdogan supporters) got very agitated, there was a lot of energy on that side. They crossed the line. They ran around the police line. Crossed the circle and attacked the protesters.

Aram Hamparian

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It's a different kind of psychosis than we might see with other patients. The psychosis is an agitated psychosis, they're violent. They can become aggressive. It is very scary, if you've ever seen these kids on it.

Scott Krakower

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Lisa While might tend to be a little bit more emotionally agitated at times and Lisa While [ mood ] swings may be higher and lower than normal.

Karin Luise

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

He just seemed agitated, excited, somewhat unhinged, there was a nervous energy about him, he told me he had been at my house, and that he thought he’d spooked my wife.

Chris Henchy

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Looking back, we would make the same decision, the gorilla was clearly agitated. The gorilla was clearly disoriented.

Thane Maynard

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The gorilla was clearly agitated. The gorilla was clearly disoriented.

Thayne Maynard

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The girls would have outbursts. He would have occasional outbursts. They would all do the same thing and copy him. One time they removed him from the courtroom and put him a holding cell, behind a locked door with a little screen, at one point he was agitated and (said) something to the effect of 'Somebody ought to cut your head off, judge' ... And before you knew it, Bingo! He was leaping toward the judge. The bailiff tackled him in midair.

Bill Robles

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He didn't have anything in his hands and he didn't seem upset or agitated.

Perry Weiss

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Went over to the White House to see Tom Donilon [deputy national security adviser], who was extremely agitated and kept saying, 'You're going too slow, you don't have a strategy, the president's very dissatisfied,' i said, 'Tom, we have a strategy -- you guys have never let us lay it out.' That, of course, got him even more agitated.

Richard Holbrooke

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

A huge number of people are forced to live in small areas together, in mixed communities, and are agitated, frustration leads to anger. It leads to conflict.

Natalie Smith

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Constantly agitated, finding myself irritable and that would turn into a burning rage, which was very uncomfortable to deal with, especially when you don’t want to be feeling like that and you try to turn it off and it won’t turn off.

Andrew Marr

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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