Example Sentences

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Thousands of university students have been agitating for weeks against a quota system for government jobs.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2024

The Meitei people have been agitating to be granted scheduled tribe status.

From Reuters • May 5, 2023

“It’s a big victory for the farmers’ movement and a big boost for those who have been agitating for over a year,” said Kiran Vissa, a farmer leader from southern Telangana state.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 19, 2021

The masked and anonymous Guerrilla Girls, behaving so badly they’re good, have been agitating for gender equity in the institutional art world for 35 years.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2020

While we have been minding our work the Nationalists have been agitating.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John