Sentence examples for provokes him from inspiring English sources

(Or provokes him, as the case may be).

Her dogmatism makes her Charles's foil and provokes him, for once, to take a stand.

Jerry becomes abusive, tosses Peter a knife, provokes him into a fight, and then impales himself on the knife.

But a woman from his past re-enters his life, and provokes him to take one last, fatal climb.

This Desdemona is confident and passionate, so certain of her rectitude and so disbelieving of her husband's rage that she inadvertently provokes him.

And every word and hysterical inflection of their pitched battles, in which she repeatedly provokes him to lose his temper, rings painfully true.

She provoked him.

She began to provoke him.

"My behavior must have provoked him.

It was better not to provoke him.

"I wasn't provoking him," Müller said.