Pronunciation of provoked

Pronunciation of the English word provoked.

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Pronounce provoked in English


provoked in a sentence

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1. My words provoked her to anger.
2. The railroad provoked a kind of revolution.
3. His rude reply provoked her to slap him on the face.
4. He was provoked into hitting her.
5. Many a gentleman of the old school has been provoked to remark regretfully upon the under-bred manners and bearing of even the better classes in the modern industrial communities; and the decay of the ceremonial code—or as it is otherwise called, the vulgarisation of life—among the industrial classes proper has become one of the chief enormities of latter-day civilisation in the eyes of all persons of delicate sensibilities.
6. The earthquake provoked a great disaster, one unlike anything that the country had experienced before.
7. Initially this gave rise to gossip among petty people, and it gradually provoked criticism from members of our family.
8. A miserable quarrel provoked by the hardheartedness of the landlord of a public-house, who insisted upon having three pounds of bread in payment for two pennyworth of wine which the woman had regaled herself with, was the circumstance that constituted the charge, and which, if substantiated would be punishable by five or ten years' imprisonment.
9. His rude reply provoked her to slap his face.
10. When I say that this spider is harmless, I don't mean that you can catch it with your hands and handle it as you like. Big spiders don't attack people unless they are provoked, and they should not be taken for toys.

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