Stir in a sentence as a noun

Why stir up a bunch of **** in public?

This "keep your head down and don't stir up trouble" attitude is a huge part of why so many things never get fixed.

Seems to me that she has been given a platform to stir the pot and has taken the opportunity to do so.

Grandma's ancient cast-iron frying pan over burning wood scraps in the back yard, make a nice veggies-and-shrimp stir fry.

Yes, it says all of the bad things about the accused that the author lays out, but it also tells me the the author likes to stir up drama.

* Now I wonder how frequent this stuff is and how many other school districts are doing this, but which don't have teacher like this who like to "stir the pot".

Stir in a sentence as a verb

Just reiterating what others have said, its reasonable because he took time to think about it. I know if I was in his position and woke up to find out my servers were being DDoS'd to **** because one of my employees had caused a stir, I may have just stayed in bed.

How much of a stir would be created if Google, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and others all displayed a page explaining the problem and demanding action for a full hour.

It seems every month some one-sided account will splash onto HN's front page, stir up a hornet's nest of indignation, resulting in long, angry rants and calls for heads to roll.

I would image the tubes will be joined with automated friction stir welding or something similiar, but that will still require a fair amount of post weld machining which has its own pitfalls.

This kind of behavior sickens me -- not just the media publications that stir this pot, but the individual people boiling at the seams to crucify everyone with a different opinion.

Stir definitions

noun

a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event; "he made a great splash and then disappeared"

See also: splash

noun

emotional agitation and excitement

noun

a rapid active commotion

See also: bustle hustle flurry fuss

verb

move an implement through; "stir the soup"; "stir my drink"; "stir the soil"

verb

move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat"

See also: shift budge agitate

verb

stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions"

See also: stimulate excite

verb

stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"

See also: stimulate shake excite

verb

affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"

See also: touch

verb

summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic; "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"

verb

to begin moving, "As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir"

See also: arouse

verb

mix or add by stirring; "Stir nuts into the dough"