stirring• This was my favouritesong as it was quite easy to sing and it had a stirring, catchingrhythm.• 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.• I make them, despite a stirring strangeness in my stomach.• For the first couple of days this was stirringstuff - until practicaldifficulties began to take their toll.
stirring2 noun [countableC]
SHOW/BE A SIGN OFan early sign that something is starting to happen 开始[出现,酝酿]的征兆
stirring of
the first stirrings of spring
春的萌动
Examples from the Corpus
stirring• Each morning there is a faintstirring of excitement when the zeks march to work.• I hear the stirring of wings.