Sentence example with the word 'provocation'

provocation

bothering, grounds, incentive, inducement, instigation, irking, justification, motive, reason, taunt, vexing

Last update: July 29, 2015


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Don't ever give way to provocation.   [Please select]

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I walked away from a potential fight despite my enemy’s provocation.   [Please select]

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Without external provocation, bears are normally gentle creatures.   [Please select]

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Other writings which he had finished, or on which he must have been engaged about this time, were not made public till after his death - the king apparently having made it the price of his protection that no fresh provocation should be offered to the popular sentiment.   [Please select]

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Give no battle, offer no provocation, let hunger do your affair.   [Please select]

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BLOOM: (Angrily) You hit him without provocation.   [Please select]

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--But he has given me no provocation.   [Please select]

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I know I gave you provocation.   [Please select]

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The man is a volcano, and may explode at any provocation.   [Please select]

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"He had more than enough provocation."   [Please select]

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He was the challenged, not the challenger; he might have given the provocation, but no blame was suffered to attach to him.   [Please select]

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