agitate

In a sentence

Six example sentences with agitate, each labelled with its topic.

• Students agitated for a lower voting age, filling letters pages and church halls until the parties finally listened.

  Politics

• Reformers agitated for years in market squares and pamphlets before the first factory inspection law reached the statute book.

  History

• Residents agitated against the incinerator for two years, packing council meetings until the plans were quietly withdrawn.

  Environment

• Campaigners agitated for a change in the tenancy law, holding weekly rallies outside the courthouse until a bill was drafted.

  Law

• Farmers agitated against the grain tariff in every market town, and by autumn ministers were counting the cost of ignoring them.

  Economics

• Supporters agitated for a new arena, filling radio call-ins for months until the county put the bond on the ballot.

  Basketball

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