goad
Example Sentences
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Artists got an idea for a Museum of Contemporary Art off the ground in 1979, goading the wealthy and influential powers that be into action.
From Los Angeles Times
It was as if they were goading Scotland now.
From BBC
The goading and deliberate reduction in food encourages them to fly and helps them lose weight, he says.
From BBC
Using her charm offensive, Hedda goads naive spouses to cheat, recovering alcoholics to drink and depressives to wander off into the darkness with a revolver.
From Los Angeles Times
Energy prices are markedly higher in Europe than in most other steel-producing countries, on top of which politicians have goaded many producers into big investments in electrification to reduce gas and coke burning.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
