Sentence examples for to provoke bit from inspiring English sources
His father used to provoke bit by bit, but this young leader is making all these outrageous threats just to show something to the world.
"There's the opportunity to provoke people a bit," said Robin Raj, partner and creative director at Collaborate in San Francisco, the agency that developed the idea for the campaign.
That excursion, like one last year to Arunachal Pradesh Indian territory claimed by China as "south Tibet"—seemed designed to arouse Chinese ire.China has certainly been doing its bit to provoke the ire of the Indians.
Dramatization of a story occurs when the news is encapsulated in sensationalistic bits intended to provoke an emotional response on the part of the news consumer.
But we lied a little bit so as not to provoke any aggression.
(Ronson tells how one psychopath — "good-looking, neatly dressed," with "a bit of a twinkle in his eye" — encountered a troubled teenager and decided to provoke the kid into attacking his family with a baseball bat, killing one person).
She began to provoke him.
To provoke thought, Homes answered.
