"provoke" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Because of this, the British did everything they could to provoke them into violence, with little effect.
- They're also more easily provoked into a physical response to a perceived problem.
- This could only provoke China into an accelerated arms race.
- "Is that what it takes to provoke you into a conversation?"
- Only 9 of the first 60 were women, provoking the institute's researchers into action.
- Said he would not have been provoked into an aerial battle.
- If s so unfair, it was he who provoked you into that fight.
- "Otherwise you're just trying to provoke them into war," he added.
- The only thing left to do was to add insult to injury and try to provoke him into some sort of action.
- The guards were careful to do nothing that might provoke him into action.
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