“I tell myself to stay calm and not to let anyone provoke me.”

“Sometimes, it takes a crisis to provoke change.”

“Green was actually responding to an interrogation that was meant to provoke him into uttering nonsense.”

“In place of serious and measured lament, then, the book provokes more and more comedy at its promiscuous and preposterous poor-mouthing.”

“What provokes this post is that someone from the church is on the phone right now, mocking me for not being able to shoot or hunt.”

“The term brings to mind, rather, the importance of kinship relations in primitive societies, and provokes an invidious comparison to England.”

“I am easily provoked, and rather vicious when my toe is stepped on, but I'm quick to cool down and fast to reasoning.”

“Nursery nurses claim the council has provoked the action by ignoring their arguments for an increase in their hourly rate.”

“Such accentuation of nonpolitical aspects of civil society provoked two major criticisms.”

“Maybe it's seen as a way of provoking a joyful feeling of brightness and wellbeing.”

“A 17-year-old German joyrider faces a legal plucking after provoking the death of 300 chickens by crashing a van, Reuters reports.”

“Full of my usual razor sharp wit and acerbic commentary coupled with pithy, erudite and provoking insights into the unfolding world about me.”