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How to use stir up in a sentence

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Annual competitions are held at this left break, where the north and south swells can stir up waves of ten feet and higher.
This is not the time, he says, to stir up anti-American sentiments, or sermonise over US foreign policy.
No doubt the same old jingoistic cliches will be trotted out to stir up the masses and justify such inhumanity.
If trolls who are in it for the lolz see that they can stir up a lot of trouble in your comments they will make an account.
Yet by the time Keith, a tall, skinny, tow-headed coal miner's son, started fifth grade, Friedrichs' pathology had begun to stir up again.
August 2 marked the beginning of 10 days of flares and explosions that would stir up the magnetosphere and radiation belts of Earth.
Snorkel early in the day, before Hawaii's trade winds ruffle the surface and stir up sand in the water, which reduces visibility.
It's no fun to be old and alone and not be odd, to at least stir up conversation with an air of intrigue and mystery on the block.
Include a little toasted anise seed for its subtle licorice hint, and you'll stir up a combo like none you've ever tasted.
It seems that a group of well known citizens had begun to stir up the cause of independence from the empire.
His break with the bank has earned him a reputation as an enfant terrible who is inclined to stir up trouble wherever he goes.
If the other orphans see that they'll cause a commotion and stir up so much trouble.
The newspaper was trying to stir up a row about the morality of allowing criminals to ransom stolen property.
As he had mentioned to Vanessa, they needed a really good blow to agitate the sea, stir up its bed and move larger objects to the surface.
References to Pearl Harbor and kamikaze pilots could stir up old WWII prejudices against Japanese-Americans.
Yet as long as they were killing us in small batches, we responded with passivity, fearing to stir up more trouble.
Britain must be free to act against extremists who stir up hatred and incite terrorism.
But you and I both know that that will stir up a brouhaha on top of a brouhaha.
They dismissed his claims, accusing him of trying to stir up racial tension for political advantage.
However, the carp are barred from the pool because they stir up silt, which reduces sunlight penetration and prevents plant growth.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There are very schelm Boers in these mountains, and whoever tried to stir up that affair his life would not be worth a tickey.
I went on in my laudatives, to procure the greater longing, that an ardent desire might stir up an emacity, to the furtherance of my proposed end.
Take it off the fire, beat up the yolks of three eggs with a spoonful of oil, and stir up all together till it is quite cold.
And do thou too pursue thy work, and exhume and stir up thy thought.
Her gravest concerns can stir up a laugh riot while her pop soundtracks send audiences down the breeziest highways, with irony riding shotgun.
I'll stir up a quarrel the way they do down in the Carnatic.
Asaph knew this, but he delighted to stir up his chum occasionally.
Send him to London to see Danvers and to stir up your friends there.
Obviously this was necessary to stir up a bit of curiosity about how she's going to look with her new chest and therefore more money for the next magazine deal.
They stir up the soul from its depths, and rouse, as with trumpet call, courage, energy, and enthusiasm, where before was only the blackness of despair.
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