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• The government has blamed the recent unrest on foreign agitation, but they'll soon realize that the call is coming from inside the house.From the entry the call is coming from inside the house
• From April onwards, however, the antireservation agitation and communal riots took place simultaneously.2016, Megha Kumar, Communalism and Sexual Violence in India: The Politics of Gender, Ethnicity and Conflict, →ISBN. From the entry antireservation
• It quickly cycloned into a sort of frantic agitation with all-nighters, near misses, and frenzied nerves.2015, Robert J. Morgan, Mastering Life Before It's Too Late. From the entry cyclone
• After agitation for 30 sec, white galactoid microbubble suspension was prepared.2013 January, Yun-Hua Li, Qiu-Sheng Shi, Jing Du, Li-Fang, Jin Lian-Fang Du, Pei-Feng Liu, You-Rong Duan, “Targeted delivery of…. From the entry galactoid
• The precursor to advancing across unknown ground was knee-trembling agitation: this may be for the last time.2009, Robert Kershaw, Tank Men, →ISBN. From the entry knee-trembling
• The preseed was incubated with mild agitation at 30 "C for 24 h.1990, DE Steinmeyer, ML Shuler, “Continuous operation of a pressure-cycled membrane bioreactor”, in Biotechnology Progress. From the entry preseed
• There was a strange agitation in Prout's manner, a strange hurriedness in his tones.1930, Frank Richards, The Magnet: Prout's Lovely Black Eye. From the entry hurriedness
• All of this agitation before the Furor Teutonicus is hopelessly childish.1915, L[ouis] P[ope] Gratacap, “Germanization”, in Europe’s Handicap—Tribe and Class, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Benton, page 303. From the entry propagandum
• Meg the house-lass, Tibbie's younger sister, let fall a "pingle" of sowens in her agitation, but Mrs.1913 January, S.R. Crockett, “First and Rest”, in The English Illustrated Magazine, volume 48, page 377. From the entry pingle
• Depending on the wash routine (detergent strength, agitation, water pH, and more factors) edge wear happens quicker for some people.2021, Bailey Bouwman, Cloth Diapers: The Ultimate Guide to Textiles, Washing & More, Simply Bailey Social Marketing, →ISBN, page 62. From the entry fitted
• Insomnious people are encouraged to list all hidden agitations out on a piece of paper or two, or maybe ten.2017, Jeannie Chen, Cheng Hsiu Chen, Converse with One Earthly. From the entry insomnious
• Eating a whole nutmeg can lead to “nutmeg psychosis,” which includes feelings of impending doom, confusion, and agitation.2009, The Ultimate Book of Top Ten Lists: The Best of listverse.com, →ISBN, page 448. From the entry nutmeg psychosis
• This is an acute psychiatric disorder that causes confusion, hallucinations, agitation, and the feeling that death is inevitably coming soon.2007, Serita Stevens, Anne Bannon, HowDunit — The Book of Poisons, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry nutmeg psychosis
• He stood up, with slight agitation, and poured himself a second glass of champagne, having quickly, burpingly, drunk the first.1993, Frank Moorhouse, Grand Days. From the entry burpingly
• Her voice, her palpable agitation, prepared us for something extraordinary.1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter 24, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. From the entry palpable
• Foredone by the agitation of the past hour, he did not at once realise what it was that he saw.1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson. From the entry fordo
• The agitation, thus deprived of its chief hope, might very well have been expected to simmer down, to die away slowly.1910, Stewart Edward White, chapter 73, in The Rules of the Game. From the entry simmer down
• The best way to handle Biafra agitation is through a round table, dialogue with them since they feel they are not well treated.2017 November 3, Seun Opejobi, quoting Rev. Divine Okwara, “Biafra: Prophet Okwara reveals how Buhari can ‘kill’ agitation for Igbo…. From the entry do the needful
• And when she raised it to see what caused this agitation, she saw nothing—nothing but the vast solitary emerald which Queen Elizabeth had given her.1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no.…. From the entry water
• Girvan also addresses the reasons for the mutedness of mass-opposition to the EPA in the Anglophone Caribbean as compared with earlier anti-globalization agitations in Latin America.2013, Shalini Puri, The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics, page xvi. From the entry mutedness
• He began to deteriorate rapidly from an ill-defined dementing illness, and his confusion and intermittent agitation did not respond to the standard treatments that were tried.2008 February 5, Jane E. Brody, “A Heartfelt Appeal for a Graceful Exit”, in New York Times. From the entry dementing
• Thai officials were afraid that Sibsongpanna would be a center where pro-Communist Thai in Southeast Asia would go and where subversive agitation could be directed against outside legitimate governments.1958, Russell H. Fifield, The Diplomacy of Southeast Asia: 1945-1958, New York: Harper & Brothers, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 263. From the entry Thai
• The fact that polymorphic equilibrium is not a dynamic equilibrium is significant with respect to the random distribution of velocity of temperature agitation among the molecules.1916, Percy Williams Bridgman, The Velocity of Polymorphic Changes Between Solids, page 84. From the entry polymorphic

Meaning of agitation

1. noun The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being disrupted with violence, or with irregular action; commotion.
2. noun A disturbance of personal tranquillity; disturbance of someone's peace of mind; an emotion combining irritation, restlessness and aggravation; a feeling of being riled up or bothered to the point of experiencing distress and tension.
3. noun Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.

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Questions about agitation in a sentence

How do you use agitation in a sentence?

Agitation is used as a noun. For example: “During a storm the sea is in agitation.”

What is a short sentence with agitation?

“the antislavery agitation”

What does agitation mean?

Agitation means the act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being disrupted with violence, or with irregular action; commotion.