Sentence examples for Provoke someone from inspiring English sources

What on earth could provoke someone to go out on a limb like that?

Being constantly afraid of doing something or saying something that might provoke someone is not a healthy way to live".

And the mere presence of a male officer can sometimes be enough to provoke someone, experts say.

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power".

On the other hand, when I don't know the truth of the situation, to jump in and provoke someone so arbitrarily is also not mature.

There is nothing, even in the season of goodwill, likely to provoke someone as steeped in Leicester as Cockerill as the spotlight falling on the club's east Midlands rivals Northampton.

That means that, even if speech is hateful, you're allowed to say or write it without being prosecuted by the government or government institutions (unless you're provoking someone up close to their face, which is known as "fighting words").

Some people (your dad) fuck with "Bittersweet Symphony" soundtracking montages of carriages and handshakes, Damian Lewis waxing lyrical about the Commonwealth, and a number of Fijian drummers that provoked someone somewhere (your dad) to say "ooh aren't their skirts funny" at their televisions last night.

The album even begins rap-style, with a drive-by shooting provoked by someone playing a Monica song too loudly.

The Protestants said they had felt provoked after someone removed flowers at a lamppost memorial to a Protestant taxi driver killed on the street two years ago.

Her favorite interjection is a sharp exhalation — "Aah!" — which is often provoked by someone else taking a simple thing (the renewal of a lease, say) and making it complicated.