How to Use agitator in a Sentence

agitator

noun

• The police arrested several anti-government agitators.
• 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
• For three decades, Nitschke has been an agitator in the right-to-die debate.
  — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2024
• 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
• This discussion harks back to the outside agitator commentary from the height of the university campus protests over Israel’s war in Gaza.
  — Samantha Putterman and Maria Ramirez Uribe, Austin American-Statesman, 26 July 2024
• All are agitators looking to rewrite the rules of influence and governance.
  — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024