noun
definition
(gerund of stir) An occasion on which something stirs or is stirred
Examples of stirrings in a Sentence
Uneasy with the stirrings within her, she forced herself to step away.
After the initial stirrings of the Civil Rights movement a number of groups began to spring up around Northern Ireland.
Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.
Wherever its operations can be traced, they are dominated by the conviction that all stirrings of independence must be repressed, and any advance beyond the stage of immaturity and nonage checked at the outset.
But it is not until the first stirrings of revolt against the hierarchy, which preceded the Reformation, that they became at all widespread or numerous.
I have to admit, I too have felt the faint stirrings of patriotic pride.
The 100 years of the 18th century saw the most extraordinary stirrings of conscience.
Second novel, King, Queen, Knave appears, and causes the first stirrings of interest and controversy.
She began to experience religious stirrings at the age of fifteen during a visit to a cousin in Staffordshire.
It also marked the very early stirrings of life with the first flowers and when the land might be soft enough to plow.
Cook has observed that his work seems to ' evoke some stirrings within the spectator's subconscious ' .
His story goes from the first stirrings in the post-war years up to the late 1990s.
In a small town on the South Coast of the United Kingdom there are the first faint stirrings of the revolution.
To my mind, Group B feels the stirrings of an ecological conscience.
It was also at this period that there were the first stirrings of a national movement in Wales.
And there are some stirrings of interest in keeping the print version alive, although as yet these amount to little.
Even when one abides in a generous disposition stirrings of the molestations of desire may arise with chang as their cause.
Cook has observed that his work seems to ' evoke some stirrings within the spectator 's subconscious '.