Rousted

Usage examples of stirred.

The Admiral suddenly stirred and groaned, waving them away with an impatient hand.

He stirred the stew, inhaling the meaty odors with pleasure and eager for the return of his family so he could tell them what had happened.

Then he realized, and laughed at the realization, that, however unsociable hatred was, it stirred the blood as well as the imagination.

It stirred and snuggled closer, exhaling on something remarkably like a purr.

The man stirred and vainly tried to raise himself, only to sink back to the ground with a groan.

Now she and Forister gazed in horrified silence at stagnant pools in which no living thing stirred, valleys eroded from the brutal road cuts leading to new hyperchip plants, swirling clouds of dust and ash blanketing woods in which the trees died and no birds sang.

Something stirred in the middle of its forehead, between blank silver eyes.

The girl stirred slightly in her sleep, and her hand settled upon the hair on his chest.

Thunderstorm stirred and raised a feeble wing-finger to the youth's hand.

She repositioned her arm on his chest, placidly noting that the fine hairs across Lars's pectoral muscles stirred upright.

The ringing stirred senses, and awoke desires as it grew louder, more insistent.

She struggled upright in the seat, biting her lip, for movement stirred up the crystal sting that pinched at blood and bone.

About the same time, the trees began to shimmy, the river alongside the trail churned as if stirred by millions of giant fish, and the ground shuddered.

The officer did not mistake the warning in the young man's manner and moved judiciously toward Eric's office space, just as a bellow and a kicking foot stirred the curtain.

Over one wide pasture they caught sight of a cloud of dust, but whatever had stirred it up disappeared under the broad leaves of a thick forest.