provoking

How To Use provoking In A Sentence

• Traditional bridal wear combines with theatrical costume and effects to create an entertaining and thought-provoking visual statement.
• We had many family quarrels about it, and they began in time to grow up to a dangerous height; for as I was quite estranged form my husband (as he was called) in affection, so I took no heed to my words, but sometimes gave him language that was provoking; and, in short, strove all I could to bring him to a parting with me, which was what above all things in the world I desired most. Moll Flanders
• It's long, but it's thought provoking in many ways.
• I remember anticipating the possible punishment of being caned for writing about ‘an enemy’ - a Western Christian woman - and later being admonished by mum for provoking the authorities.
• However, the Trouts have skillfully created a spectacle as beautiful as it is thought provoking.
• After explaining the context, we pose a series of questions regarding common factors that are intended to be thought provoking.
• The problem since then has been how to rekindle a spirit of democratic inquiry without provoking another conservative backlash.
• In his recent annual address to the clergy the Bish. lamented bitterly that the American "jingo" was provoking dear patient Christian England to put on her war-paint. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
• The marching an army into the midst of a peaceful Mexican settlement, frightening the inhabitants away, leaving their growing crops and other property to destruction, to you may appear a perfectly amiable, peaceful, unprovoking procedure; but it does not appear so to us. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
• There was no doubt that Madge was a most provoking and persistent sniggler. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols