stirring
adjective
rousing, exciting, or thrilling.
unstirring
-
a word derived from
stirring.
Example Sentences
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He was still bent over staring with one eye into the lightless, unstirring void of the soldier in white’s mouth when the doctors and the M.P.s came running to help Yossarian pull him away.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
There he lay, scarce drawing breath, unstirring, deathly spent.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
Almost two hundred tired, gaunt, downcast men stood holding their parachute packs in a somber and unstirring crowd outside the briefing room, their faces staring blankly in different angles of stunned dejection.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
The third lay huddled in his front corner unstirring, and nobody saw to it that he got his share.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Through the months of dark, and storm, and ghostly, dancing lights, and immeasurable cold, the cub slept unstirring, and grew in his sleep.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
