Sentence examples for provokes my from inspiring English sources

3) Hope Europe does not throw up anything which provokes my backwoodsmen.

I suppressed an occasional laugh in the face of Smith's somberness: as with the Catholic priests of my childhood, her piety provokes my irreverence.

There is little sign of the political crisis that threatens to engulf Turkey, and provokes my visit.This crisis is over the secular inheritance of Ataturk, father of modern Turkey, who abolished the Ottoman sultanate and the caliphate in the 1920s, and moved the capital to Ankara.

For example, if I condemn pornography as systemically damaging to women, it is my age that provokes my labeling as a prude and a pearl-clutcher.

Perhaps this book provokes my profound admiration and affinity because of where I was in my own life when it was so meaningfully pressed into my hand.

In his journal he wrote a more somber account of the conversation (Mary had been "very bad-tempered," mainly because his lost bank statements—abandoned in Boston—had led to a $2,000 overdraft): "This sort of thing provokes my drinking," he concluded.

A simple smug aside about our comparative progress is enough to provoke my girlfriend's wrath.

And this is all done to provoke my audience, to make them think.

Not really – I'm just saying that to provoke my girlfriend.

There were two books that provoked my interest and I realized, "Oh, this is the path for me".

Thus provoked, my father ran down the hallway screaming, "Rams are sissies!" Deprived of sleep, the Rams started slowly.