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How to use astir in a sentence

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Moments later, the room was astir, with half a dozen instructors and guards, all working to release them.
We do not know entirely what is astir, but we can feel that the world is ready to throw itself into turmoil.
The village was astir for the duties of the day, white fustanellas were hurrying in every direction toward the fields.
A week later, the Haifa municipality was still astir as officials spoke of the amazing funeral.
When news of the gruesome homicide began to trickle out, the Washington Post newsroom was astir.
The two walked quickly back to the village, which was now all astir with life.
The production that set the New York and London stages astir will creep into Tokyo Nov.16-19 at the Sun Mall Theater in Shinjuku.
The World was astir over Tsukasa, a young boy with unusual powers.
The central part of Westhoughton was early astir this morning on the occasion of a great walk which had been arranged to take place from Westhoughton to Southport.
Third, the deaths in a house of prayer come at a time when Jerusalem is already astir over the status of holy sites.
But the hour was still that between dusk and dawn, with the birds asleep in the branches and naught but the night creatures astir.
The theatre project is in fact merely one of the thousands of projects setting Beijing astir.
I walked away, my feelings astir and confusing my already troubled mind.
A group of 42 young South Korean women set the city astir this past week.
By the time I reach downtown, of course, I see that things are astir.
During the next decade and a half, that style became more dramatic, with dominant reds and blacks, broader handling, and jostling forms like possibly living things astir in shadows.
Markets yawned. The financial press, however, was astir.
In early December 2010, health centres in these villages were set astir as communities and families gathered en masse to receive the new meningitis vaccine.
Examples from Classical Literature
Accordingly, the zareba was soon astir, and the men bustling about their animals.
Dennet was astir early to see them off, and she had a little gift for each.
The British slept that night without tents round fires of kauri gum, but next morning all was astir for the attack.
It was rather a restless night in Orangeade, and all were astir early, for they wanted to be at the everglade camp by daylight.
The town was astir by this time, the sun was on the beach, and the fishermen trooped off to bed.
I like to Fletcherize them with my mind, and with those senses which my mind can set astir.
It had hardly begun to grow light, when we heard the old gentleman astir in the kitchen.
The ghyll was early astir, and in every nook and corner full of the buzz of gossip.
I slept ill that night, and very early next morning I was astir.
Lights flashed in the windows, drums beat, and the whole place was astir.
The night passed, and with the coming of dawn the boys were astir.
A soul is astir with an idea, a resentment, a call for change.
At the Lodge she gave him back a quick look that set him astir.
Before long the whole island seemed to be astir about our reception.
The next morning at daybreak the household of Nathan 48 hornby was astir.
I had no suspicion anything was astir that night with the college boys.
No bugle had sounded, yet the whole camp was softly and diligently astir.
We left calli at daybreak, before the rest of the guests were astir.
Penetrating further and further into the heart of the Japanese cruising ground, the Pequod was soon all astir in the fishery.
My faculties, roused by the change of scene, the new field offered to hope, seemed all astir.
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