How to Use agitator in a Sentence

agitator

noun
  • The police arrested several anti-government agitators.
  • Right-wing agitators then took to the internet to spread false information about the attacker, leading to real-world violence from anti-immigrant mobs.
    Emily Price, PCMAG, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The team wraps the bag around a set of large plastic agitators that look much like the cogs in a clock.
    Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 3 June 2019
  • These are the ones with a lid on the top of the machine that flips up, and that often have a center agitator in the drum.
    Jolie Kerr, Esquire, 6 Sep. 2016
  • And if your washer has an agitator in the middle, don't wrap the sheets around it.
    Lauren Smith McDonough, Good Housekeeping, 12 Aug. 2022
  • One of the bad-faith actors was a racist agitator, Richard Spencer.
    Dominic Green, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Loach is the rare movie agitator who can point to results.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The question is where the agitators would have gotten that list of accounts — and why.
    Ben Popken, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Browning played the captain and chief agitator on the squad.
    chicagotribune.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Rare for a guy with his offensive skill to be that kind of agitator.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2019
  • Which Musk is showing up here—the philosopher, or the agitator?
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Marchessault has not only scored big goals but become known as one of the best on-ice agitators and trash-talkers in the sport.
    Stephen Whyno, ajc, 14 June 2023
  • The Stars will have to account for Flames forward Matthew Tkachuk, part-agitator and part-goal scorer.
    Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2020
  • There are four reporters at the heart of my book, plus one agitator and provocateur.
    Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Keep the agitator post in for regular loads or remove it to wash bulky loads.
    Carolyn Forte, Good Housekeeping, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Vigilantes and labor agitators clash in a battle over free speech in the streets of San Diego.
    Merrie Monteagudo, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Faith Ringgold, artist-agitator-seer, can be thanked for that.
    New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
  • And this speaks to Pollan’s emerging role in the drug war not as an activist or agitator but a kind of culture warrior.
    John Semley, The New Republic, 26 July 2021
  • Over the years, Center came to be viewed as more consensus builder than agitator.
    Cathy Locke, sacbee, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Who, David Remnick asks, is the true agitator behind the racial unrest?
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Klingberg, the skinny and slippery Swede, doesn’t often play the role of agitator.
    Dallas News, 6 May 2022
  • Last month, police had to be called in to clear out-of-control agitators that managed to take over a building on campus.
    Pilar Arias, Fox News, 5 June 2024
  • In the letter, Ruiz said agitators heckled mourners at the vigil before putting up the posters.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Build up can combine with laundry detergent soap scum to leave a film on the agitator drum.
    Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 June 2024
  • In Poland this week, more peaceful agitators—like those dressed in costumes from the Handmaid’s Tale—made headlines.
    Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 7 July 2017
  • After the event, Cassidy declined to hide behind the idea that these were some outside agitators brought in from New Orleans just to cause a scene.
    Tim Morris, NOLA.com, 1 June 2017
  • The ragged labor agitator becomes the shop steward, then the union boss, and the propinquity of the bargaining table supplies the fellow with new best friends.
    David Mamet, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The devil has resurfaced as an agitator in Palm Beach County schools.
    Lois K. Solomon, Sun-Sentinel.com, 7 June 2017
  • Sharpton talks like a grass-roots agitator, one who promises never to go away.
    Washington Post, 4 May 2021
  • But because these are left-wing agitators, many of whom voice the sympathies of members of the newsrooms of the American press, they are given a pass and Biden is given a pass.
    Erick Erickson, Orange County Register, 17 June 2024

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