Example Sentences

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“I’m trying to be less agitational on certain levels,” she told me, suggesting it was a work in progress.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2021

You then ask what the leads call “an agitational question” to heighten the emotion of the moment, raise the temperature a little.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2018

Both series were presided over by the Canadian producer Sydney Newman, who encouraged original work – what he called "agitational contemporaneity" – and had an astonishing impact.

From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2011

In 1915 Patel was playing bridge in Ahmedabad's Gujerat Club when he first saw his fellow lawyer Gandhi, fresh from agitational triumphs in South Africa.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the train has not merely an agitational purpose.

From The Crisis in Russia by Ransome, Arthur