How to Use agitator in a Sentence

agitator

noun
  • The police arrested several anti-government agitators.
  • One of the two agitators threw paint and a crew member was hit.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
  • Some were even attacked by white agitators, but they had been taught not to fight back.
    — Dwight Lewis, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • 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
  • Rare for a guy with his offensive skill to be that kind of agitator.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2019
  • 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
  • That might be an agitator for some players.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 22 Aug. 2025
  • For three decades, Nitschke has been an agitator in the right-to-die debate.
    — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Keep the agitator post in for regular loads or remove it to wash bulky loads.
    — Carolyn Forte, Good Housekeeping, 17 Aug. 2021
  • One agitator who tried to push his way inside later spat toward one of the men.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Faith Ringgold, artist-agitator-seer, can be thanked for that.
    — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
  • There are four reporters at the heart of my book, plus one agitator and provocateur.
    — Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The question is where the agitators would have gotten that list of accounts — and why.
    — Ben Popken, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Sharpton talks like a grass-roots agitator, one who promises never to go away.
    — Washington Post, 4 May 2021
  • Avoid washing bulky loads in a top-loader with a center agitator.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2025
  • One of the bad-faith actors was a racist agitator, Richard Spencer.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Which Musk is showing up here—the philosopher, or the agitator?
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2022
  • After a back-and-forth about gun control, the agitator doubled down.
    — Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Return the tray to the agitator.
    — Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 June 2026
  • Once the agitators calmed down, the acting president was able to get through her final points.
    — Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 21 May 2025
  • They could be trapped in the door’s rubber seal or under the agitator, for example.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
  • For top-load washers with a central agitator, evenly spread the blanket around the drum.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Over the years, Center came to be viewed as more consensus builder than agitator.
    — Cathy Locke, sacbee, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Flores has always been much less of an agitator than some of her peers assume her to be based on her identity.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 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 veteran head coach has always been an agitator.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Use a vacuum nozzle to pick up stray lint inside the agitator cavity and wipe it down with a damp cloth.
    — Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 4 Feb. 2026

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