Sentence examples for provoke comments from inspiring English sources

Well-known critics or authors online tend to provoke comments less interested in engaging with the issues raised than in attacking the well-known person raising them.

Echoing Murdoch, he says that the Internet offers editors "immediate information" about which stories interest readers, provoke comments, are shared with friends, and generate the greatest number of Web searches.

I switched to the Democrats in 2009 because I loved President Obama and I had these buttons made up and the hat to provoke comments.

If you choose to wear this at the Christmas work do, people will flick it and comment on it because – let's face it – we just haven't evolved enough as a human race that the sight of a man indoors in a scarf doesn't provoke comment.

Whilst this blog does provoke comment it is extremely scottish based and somewhat unbalanced in suggesting Scottish players would make up a significant number of the squad.

Almost one fifth of the same age group had speech that was different enough to provoke comment or was unintelligible [ 6- 8].

I actually thought I would read some genuinely intelligent and thought provoking comments on this subject and I was wrong.

It's exactly the kind of shot from a Paris catwalk that provokes comments about how stupid high fashion is – and by implication, all those involved with and interested in it.

That it provoked comments about both me and my skill as a writer was unnecessary.

Every issue of Vogue under Vreeland provoked comment.

Last summer she sported a tight, short orange dress for a performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, provoking comment among critics and fashionistas.