Sentence examples for is provoked from inspiring English sources
verb
To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
Alas, a sinking feeling is provoked by Katrina.
Machado provokes, sometimes is provoked and seldom backs down.
Yet Ecuador's unrest is provoked less by deprivation than by anger at a grasping elite.
No Australian snake will ever attack unless it is provoked; it invariably runs away.
And once a sense of injustice is provoked, the stage is set for compromise.
When a child's asthma is provoked by pollen, for example, windows should be closed.
"The social unrest we are experiencing in Greece is provoked as a result of European policies.
This perception is provoked by the most strangely imbalanced "Twelfth Night" that I have ever seen.
Envy involves a longing for what you don't have, while jealousy is provoked by losing something to someone else.
"He is provoked by a perception of absence within what others regard as a full and satisfactory present".
But when discomfort is provoked in the theater, it has a power that can't be matched by film or television.
