Sentence examples for rather agitated from inspiring English sources

Joao Gilberto began his Carnegie Hall concert on Friday night in a rather agitated state, as did his audience.

After the event, I noticed the woman who had asked this question having a rather agitated conversation, inquiring of someone who appeared to be a superior.

There's no Holy Cow sitting in this sycamore, only a couple of rather agitated blackbirds, but the tree's creativity is irrepressible.

Despite the well-known adage that all literature is about sex and death, the Times and the Daily Mail got rather agitated today about the inclusion of that Playboy-esque filthfest, Ovid's Amores, in the most recent Latin AS-level exam.

He watched the "patterns" of what made Dotty calm and agreeable rather than agitated and negative.

Tell us if you get rather more agitated when you hear other mispronunciations.

Dr. Zahn-Waxler says the kind of discipline a child receives should "help the child regulate emotion, to calm down rather than become more agitated".

Graham held the ball out in the hinterland between the key and midcourt when suddenly he took on this agitated expression, then rather clunkily ripped off his shooting sleeve from his non-shooting arm and hurled it upward over the scorer's table and into the crowd.

Rather than assuming that her agitated behavior is coming out of the blue, the responding officer could address concerns around Suzanne's dog and help de-escalate the situation.

These units acted more like well-trained special forces without recognizable insignia rather than spontaneous groups of agitated citizens.

She demonstrates with a lop-sided grimace that distorts her rather beautiful, open features into a kind of agitated question mark.