Sentence examples for trying to bait from inspiring English sources

For weeks, he has been trying to bait Holmes into some verbal sparring.

I am not trying to bait anyone here - I am genuinely curious.

Mr. Owens had asserted that his opponent, a longtime City Council member, was trying to bait voters along ethnic lines.

"I don't know if he was trying to bait him, but if he was, he did a good job.

The junior senator also accused Trump of trying to bait North Korea into a war by escalating his rhetoric against Kim Jong Un.

Martin, who had no flagrant foul points in his rookie season, said he did not think opponents were trying to bait him.

It was a tactic to try to bait the left.

Darcy Tucker, in particular, tried to bait him verbally as well as physically.

The committee members tried to bait him into a jail term for admitting contempt for HUAC.

Indeed, when Sam Donaldson, the White House correspondent for ABC News, tried to bait him into talking about marijuana, Dr. Satcher deftly avoided the decriminalization question.

The neighbor said that Dear would carry a stick as he rode his trail bike, and he would slow down and try to bait dogs in the area.