"provoke" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Malik finally provokes Tommy into a fight, with both men using their baling hooks.
- The savagery of the insurrections and the reprisals did finally provoke a reaction from the outside world.
- The government tried to build a centre with local aboriginal corvée labor, but treated them more like slaves and finally provoked an uprising.
- And to finally provoke it into a hostile response?
- The era of the space-filling curves finally provoked the modern definitions of curve.
- Deep down inside myself I am an easy-going person, but when finally provoked I get very angry indeed.
- His loss finally provoked me to finish a short story on Daddy's last year and a half and his death.
- Hector used brutality to establish himself as chief rival for Lear's throne, finally provoking the king by an attack on his queen, Gemini.
- I'd finally provoked him into it.
- Their sack of Naples finally provoked a reaction, however, and the League of Venice was formed against them.
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