AGITATED in a Sentence

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Pierre, who had been growing more and more agitated as he listened to all this, rose and approached the princess.

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 Meanings and Examples of AGITATED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
agitated
 a.  disturbed; excited; expressing agitation
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His son's return had agitated Nikolai Petrovitch.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  But there were thousands of such great points to consider, and they all agitated and overwhelmed me.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
3  The story was very pretty and interesting, especially at the point where the rivals suddenly recognized one another; and the ladies looked agitated.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
4  Pierre, who had been growing more and more agitated as he listened to all this, rose and approached the princess.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII
5  All were conscious of this unseen line, and the question whether they would cross it or not, and how they would cross it, agitated them all.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX
6  Princess Mary's self-esteem was wounded by the fact that the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both her companions' not having the least conception that it could be otherwise.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
7  Unobservant as was the little princess, these tears, the cause of which she did not understand, agitated her.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VII
8  Yes, it was he, pale, thin, with a changed and strangely softened but agitated expression on his face.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VIII
9  A strange feeling agitated me all the time I was alone with him in the dark chamber.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER X
10  "Something very important is happening between them," thought Pierre, and a feeling that was both joyful and painful agitated him and made him neglect the game.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXI
11  But all the same that night Natasha, now agitated and now frightened, lay a long time in her mother's bed gazing straight before her.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXII
12  Pale and agitated, Natasha ran into the drawing room.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXIII
13  Before the countess could answer, Prince Andrew entered the room with an agitated and serious face.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXIII
14  Flushed and agitated she went about the house all that day, dry-eyed, occupied with most trivial matters as if not understanding what awaited her.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXIV
15  Natasha, who had borne the first period of separation from her betrothed lightly and even cheerfully, now grew more agitated and impatient every day.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  The swimmers said the dolphins were extremely agitated and repeatedly slapped the water with their tails, presumably to try to deter the predator as it cruised nearby.
2  His face was very much agitated and very much flushed.
3  The doctor becalmed the agitated patient.
4  He sounded very agitated on the phone.
5  The unions continue to agitate for higher pay.
6  All you need to do is gently agitate the water with a finger or paintbrush.
7  The women who worked in these mills had begun to agitate for better conditions.
8  Since President has now announced that Emergency, the only demand that the lawyers can now agitate is the restoration of the old Supreme Court.
9  His family are agitating to get him freed.
10  The result of all this agitation is an unsettlement that paralyzes business.
11  In what you might call a giant washing machine, agitation and heat begin to separate the bitumen from the sand.
12  But then, prepared as my mind was for horror, shaken as my nerves were by agitation, I thought the swift darting beam was a vision from another world.
13  The organization is turning to political agitation in order to achieve its aims.
14  He could not hide his agitation.
15  Small shopkeepers carried on a long agitation against the big department stores.