Sentence examples for we were provoking from inspiring English sources
Personally I didn't plan rob anything, but we were just there and we were provoking the police, we weren't really stealing anything.
Still, we could always say we were provoked.
When we were provoked before, the military's first thought was about the aftermath of its response and the politics.
Abdi Oueybdid, who was an aide to that recalcitrant warlord, Muhammad Farah Aidid, says later: "We were provoked to fight.
"We are provoking civilizational struggle," he writes.
Our infrastructure was built for the climate system we inherited and is not designed to cope with the climate system we are provoking.
"We've changed our style slightly, and we are provoking ourselves a bit," the band's keyboardist, Kjartan Sveinsson, 30, said at a Midtown hotel the day of the Grand Ballroom show.
We're provoking people to think," says del Naja, conceding that he also needed some "shaking up" himself.
We are provoking him with abortions and same-sex marriage and civil unions," she said.
"We're provoking the discussion higher up, to the correct people," he said.
