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How to use bestir in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word bestir? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
To give them justice, they did indeed bestir themselves by late afternoon enough to try, but I was out.
We therefore call for both police and operators to bestir themselves and stop the rot between them.
When will the administration finally bestir itself to fight these perverters of our democratic system?
I might even bestir myself to buy an actual paper copy of the Indy to see.
At first, one would like it to be a little more embarrassed: the prose seems unwilling to bestir itself.
In other words, it is by slowing down that the person allows Love to bestir itself in, around and through that person.
The really sad part is the average US citizen is not paying attention, as long as they have their cars and their munchies they they see no further need to bestir themselves.
On the other hand, there are the simple-minded folk, who neither suspect the origin of future troubles nor bestir themselves to deal with the cause of their woes.
I believe that we are richly endowed in natural resources if we open our eyes to see them, in geographical location if we will use it, and, above all, in human resources if we bestir ourselves to realize our possibilities.
Robert Dahl, a celebrated sociologist, studied New Haven, Connecticut in the late 1950s, and found people unwilling to bestir themselves for altruistic community life.
But putting a registration form and a pen under the nose of a nonvoter is a lot easier than getting them to bestir themselves to trudge off to the polls on Election Day.
The future of Canada is largely based upon how we bestir ourselves today, but it also includes expectations and hopes which have their foundations deep in our thinking.
Why is it so important to bestir oneself? Bestirring oneself means that one feels truly fortunate and excited to stand before one's Creator and that one longs for this moment.
Examples from Classical Literature
So she began to flutter round her husband, goading him on to bestir himself.
And now if you're to be congratulated before I go back to the groves of academe pray bestir yourself.
It is sometimes intensive, as in bestir, and converts an adjective into a verb, as in bedim.
Every one of you can do as well as he did, if you only bestir yourselves and bring your will to it.
Not to stand beside him as the Cricket did, but to busy and bestir themselves.
Our friends must bestir themselves once more, perhaps we may yet turn the scale.
Get up, husband, and bestir yourself, for we must be king of all the land.
In order to bestir himself, Pierre began to examine the two rooms.
Yet all else will fail unless you bestir yourself in the next three days.
The officers of the first grey regiment began to bestir themselves.
When they were quite out of sight, Phineas began to bestir himself.
If nobody knows the address, you must still bestir yourself in trying to find it.
A sudden realization came upon him that life was real and life was earnest, and that if he did not wish to jeopardize a good situation he must bestir himself.
At length as darkness settled upon the jungle the apes commenced to bestir themselves, and soon they formed a great circle about the earthen drum.
No one spoke for a minute, but there were signs of emotion among the aunts, which warned the boys to bestir themselves before the water-works began to play.
He would even have set fire to the ships and burned them, had not Queen Juno put it into the mind of Agamemnon, to bestir himself and to encourage the Achaeans.
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