For the first couple of days this was stirring stuff - until practical difficulties began to take their toll.
I make them, despite a stirring strangeness in my stomach.
It was a stirring place to visit but maybe you wouldn't want to live there.
Theatres and concert halls can be beautiful and stirring places, quite apart from what goes on in them.
This was my favourite song as it was quite easy to sing and it had a stirring, catching rhythm.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES►a rousing/stirring speech
(=making people feel excited and eager to do something)· Thousands of people were inspired by his stirring speeches.
producing strong feelings or excitement in someoneSYN rousing: a stirring speech stirring music—stirringly adverb
stirring1adjectivestirring2noun
stirringstirring2 noun [countable]Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Each morning there is a faint stirring of excitement when the zeks march to work.
I hear the stirring of wings.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES►a rousing/stirring speech
(=making people feel excited and eager to do something)· Thousands of people were inspired by his stirring speeches.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB►feel
· I felt a helpless desire stirring.· She felt a stirring of envy at this unknown woman.· She was still angry with him, but at the same time, she felt a stirring of interest.· Gazing into those dark eyes now, she was surprised to feel a faint stirring of recognition.
an early sign that something is starting to happenstirring of the first stirrings of spring