How do you use Stir in a sentence? See 20 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like move or arouse, plus the exact meaning.

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Stir in a sentence

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Stir meaning

  1. To disturb the relative position of the particles (of a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
  2. To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.
  3. To emotionally affect; to touch, to move.

Synonyms of Stir

move arouse stir up raise evoke excite stimulate commotion to-do hurly burly flutter disruption disturbance splash hoo-ha

Stir in Dutch

roeren

Example sentences (20)

In a clip that has caused yet another stir Jada has revealed she has been separated from husband, Will, since 2016.

Jarange-Patil also led a stir with a demand that the accused of the Kopardi case be punished with a death sentence.

Last year, Sunak’s predecessor caused a stir after a series of car crash interviews over her disastrous mini-budget.

Stir fry some spinach, broccoli and cabbage to add atop a bed of riced cauliflower for dinner,” Bragagnini suggested.

Freshman year, I used to take a 75-minute bus pilgrimage to get to one, simply to stir up some intimacy of my lineage.

Give it a quick stir, then cover the bowl with your plastic wrap and leave in the fridge for roughly two hours.

In the 800, York senior Aidan Hill had a memorable two laps around the track, helping stir up the crowd on a cold night.

Place the coffee granules in a mixing bowl along with the boiling water, and stir until the granules dissolve.

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She then pours her pasta sauce over the top and gives it a stir before cooking it on bake mode for 10 minutes.

Add in spreadable cheese in pea-sized lumps and stir carefully to avoid blending the cheese into the batter.

Add the first four ingredients to a highball glass filled with ice and stir with a swan stirrer, then top with soda water.

Dunk them and stir them around as they steep, then remove and discard the used leaves before adding another fresh handful.

As a result of their stir, SER cancelled 46 express and passenger trains and short-terminated eight trains, a release said.

Once melted, lift the bowl off the heat and stir in the remaining chocolate until it, too, has melted in the residual heat.

Next stir in the finely chopped onion and cook over low heat for three minutes or until the onion is tender and transparent.

Once the butter is mostly melted, just crack an egg into the pan and stir the whole concoction vigorously.

A Daily Echo article about eating beaver caused a stir with Greg James on the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show.

Stir in a little bit of chili with what looks like movie theater nacho cheese and you’ve got me at hello.

Fast-forward to last month, and Jaclyn caused a stir online after poking fun at the past lipstick controversy in a pointed TikTok.

Stir every few minutes, until the mix slightly dries and has the consistency of loose mashed potato.

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Common combinations with stir

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • and stir 41×
  • stir in 34×
  • to stir 29×
  • stir up 18×
  • caused stir 17×
  • stir the 11×
  • stir until 10×
  • stir with
  • stir to
  • of stir

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "stir" in a sentence?
An example: "In a clip that has caused yet another stir Jada has revealed she has been separated from husband, Will, since 2016." This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "stir" from real English texts.
What does "stir" mean?
Stir means: To disturb the relative position of the particles (of a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
What are synonyms of "stir"?
Common synonyms of "stir" include: move, arouse, stir up, raise, evoke, excite, stimulate, commotion. Plus 7 more synonyms.
What is "stir" in Dutch?
"stir" translates to Dutch as: roeren.
How many example sentences with "stir" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "stir", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

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