Sentence examples for stir themselves from inspiring English sources

Songbirds stir themselves awake.

Apparently, Russian mothers still tell their children to stir themselves or they will turn into little Oblomovs.

Things did not go their way, they were two disallowed tries and while they did finally stir themselves with Fetu'u Vainikolo's score, they ran out of time.

OK, they'll stir themselves for a trip to a theme park; or even the beach, although it always takes an age to drag them out of the house.

Exeter found it hard to stir themselves after the disappointment of their last-gasp European defeat by Wasps but opponents are also starting to work out ways of countering their rolling maul threat.

Against such acquiescence there was no need for Wigan to stir themselves, though Grigg and Max Power did hit Lawlor's crossbar, the latter from Colclough's sharp burst and cross.

Quins stirred themselves enough to mount more pressure without ever looking convincing.

Bush's father and his Secretary of State, James Baker, were notoriously uninterested in the Israelis and the Palestinian question until 1991, when they finally stirred themselves to organize the Madrid Peace Conference.

Just after 10am I was still poking around my billet when, half a mile away at the head of the train, twin red-liveried locomotives, each weighing 132 tons and delivering 3,000kw of pulling power, stirred themselves into life.

Every so often, such as when Vasco da Gama reached the Indian Ocean in 1498, or following Napoleon's invasion of Egypt exactly 300 years later, the citizenry stirred themselves to confront an infidel invader that never materialised.

France's continued underwhelming form will see to that, although they stirred themselves in 2014 when Ireland came to the Stade de France needing to win to secure the championship and only just made it to the line.