The plug-hatted driver was half asleep, so Phil's arrival scarcely stirred him.

His abrupt arrival stirred scores of tiny midges into spiraling flight from the golden-brown grass, which appeared crisp from months of summer heat.

His arrival stirred Suzanna.

In fact, the unexpected arrival of Commissioner Weston stirred Ron's mind to the dramatic.

Her arrival stirred tension in the room.

Kyne's arrival stirred a flicker of hope in the grief and despair hanging in the air.

The arrival of conservative Jews from Eastern Europe after the 1880s brought tension into the Wichita Jewish community, but also stirred an ethnoreligious revival.

But the arrival in western Europe of these eastern Jews, with their strange clothes and outlandish customs, stirred old prejudices.

Zvezda's imminent arrival has already stirred criticism of another lurch toward a Soviet-like past.

Already, their arrival stirred fresh religious beliefs.