How to Use agitate in a Sentence
agitate
verb- Some members of the union have been agitating for a strike.
- If I talk about the problem with him it just agitates him even more.
- The mixture is heated and then agitated.
- A few local residents have been agitating against a military presence.
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This makes two of the world’s top activist investors agitating for change.
—Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 28 May 2018
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But then things got weird when Flea said the woman stuck her ski pole in his face, which agitated him.
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Now tangled, even crazed, they are further agitated by more active uses of the ink.
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Their presence seemed to agitate some committee members.
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The updrafts lower the weight of the air at the surface, and this can agitate the ocean surface dramatically.
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Serrano says a patron who was in the line before her ordered his food in Spanish and that appeared to agitate the man in the video.
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He was agitated by an eye injury, but gregarious, sliding an olive out of a martini and making quick work of a rare steak.
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Fans inside Beer Works grew visibly agitated as the Celtics fell more and more behind in the fourth quarter.
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Participants would also have to be prepared to agitate, as the WPA unions did, for their concerns to be heard.
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For his part, Henson used the publication of Stowe’s books to agitate for change in the United States.
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The tensions over who gets the high ground, and who gets to decide who gets the high ground, are agitating some historic residential neighborhoods like Bywater.
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In retaliation, Greg Porter took to stomping up and down the stairs outside Holbrook's apartment to agitate her.
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Swearing him in might indeed have panicked capital markets, which are already agitated by the prospect of a populist partnership running the euro-zone’s third-largest economy.
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The south has long been readier than the north to agitate against the strictures of caste.
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Stay away from the area for a day or so as the treatment will agitate them.
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Dunk and agitate the pack, squeezing the straps and back panel foam again to get the soap out.
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The shift has agitated some in a sport that is often slow to change.
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Submerge the tent in the water and gently agitate it with your hands to loosen dirt and grime.
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Immerse the item in the clear water and gently agitate it with clean hands to rinse.
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Leaving her dog in the SUV, Woods allegedly went to the back of the trailer, shaking the hives to agitate the bees.
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Gently agitate the water and let the bathing suit soak for up to 30 minutes.
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Dust a tiny bit of salt and sugar over the vegetables and use a gloved hand to agitate the mixture.
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To perform the chabrot, each diner pools wine into their plate at the end of the meal, agitates the wine with a fork to degrease the plate, then drinks the wine.
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In Myanmar, both sides have come to fear the whir of the propeller blades agitating the air above them.
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Then place the basket back in the bowl and let the leeks soak, agitating the water to release debris.
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In a different incident reported by a nurse, Dowd pushed a resident who had been agitated and cursing into a chair.
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