stirring
adjective
rousing, exciting, or thrilling.
unstirring
-
a word derived from
stirring.
Example Sentences
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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
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
Zaidee and even Redge, adoring little sister and brother, had been allowed to hold him in their arms, so securely unstirring was their little burden.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 by Various
