Sample sentences for STIMULATE

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Definition

to encourage growth, interest or excitement, or to cause something to happen

At the beginning of her lectures, she typically starts with a question to try to stimulate curiosity.

stimulate = encourage (something to happen)

I had been helping her with electrical stimulation, adjusting her, and administering other chiropractic techniques.
Howard E. Wasdin & Stephen Templin -- I Am a Seal Team Six Warrior

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

I have been giving him small doses to stimulate it, but they no longer have any effect.
Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop
The idea was revolutionary, an embedded biological-electronic interface that could perfectly simulate sensory stimulation.
Matthew Mather -- Cyberstorm

Now it seemed that what she had thought was maturity, serenity and compassion was only the tranquillity that follows a joyful stimulation.
Toni Morrison -- Sula

The hope was that these programs would be provocative, stimulating, and helpful to listeners.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
Ruth swaddled her mother in towels, rubbing her to stimulate her circulation.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
Nothing since was as stimulating as the old days of letters, petitions, meetings, debates, recruitment, quarrels, rescue and downright sedition.
Toni Morrison -- Beloved
It stimulated my libido and I told myself that it was educational because it informed me of the difficulties in the secret world of the pervert.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
It was as if she had drunk a great draught of scorn that stimulated her beyond the susceptibility to other feelings.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
She had pulmonary phthisis, and people like that are frequently highly stimulated.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
Apparently the change is stimulated by an environment in which all the animals are of the same sex.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
"Or maybe it's because I'm stimulated by the idea of wearing shoes that will make my arches scream for the next couple hours."
J.D. Robb -- Glory in Death
Men and women must have their adrenals stimulated from time to time.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
Her absence had provoked the most stimulating week of teaching I had ever enjoyed.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
There was too much reason to think that he and Eustacia both were for ever beyond the reach of stimulating perfumes.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
School stimulated and developed in him those impulses which all of us have, and then he was made to realize that he could not act upon them.
Richard Wright -- Native Son
'Hola, Pig!' cried Rigaud, with a noisy stimulating cry, as if Cavalletto were an Italian horse or mule.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
Max lockdown was torturous in its monotony and lack of stimulation; the hours and the days crawled by.
Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black

At the same time it may provide enough nicotine for taste and sensory stimulation.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point

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