Examples of 'was provoked' in a sentence
Meaning of "was provoked"
When someone says that a person or situation 'was provoked,' it means that a specific action or behavior was caused or influenced by something that instigated or triggered a response. The phrase is often used to explain or justify someone's actions or to analyze the circumstances surrounding a certain event
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I was provoked by the blinding light of your beauty.
The spontaneous speech was provoked directly or indirectly.
But we know there are other situations in which it was provoked.
She was provoked to this by your son.
She will tell you she was provoked.
My mother was provoked into going to the shoot.
He can prove that that was provoked.
The aggression was provoked by all those gratuitous insults.
Even the judge said it was provoked.
The dog was provoked in some way.
The behavior of the calves was provoked.
The offender was provoked into committing the offense.
His lawyer says he was provoked.
Jane was provoked by the sharing in the group.
The whole altercation was provoked by you.
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She was provoked in the extreme.
Do not make assumptions that violence was provoked by psychotropic substances.
He was provoked into hitting her.
Elastocalcinosis was provoked with warfarin.
It was provoked in a spasm of wounded vanity.
You said yourself he was provoked.
I was provoked into saying that.
We think the barking was provoked.
I was provoked by something she said.
He fought back because he was provoked.
But it was provoked mainly by the.
I am willing to bet that he was provoked.
Marcus was provoked by a lesser being.
Either this was unprovoked or it was provoked.
The treasure was provoked and unleashed the angel demons contained in it.
I was the one who was provoked.
Oenomaus was provoked to write this work having himself been deceived by an oracle.
Whether the conduct was provoked.
I was provoked beyond endurance.
I found myself in the crush that was provoked by the police.
She was provoked.
The announcement of doom in this story was provoked in part because.
It was provoked.
Hannigan says he was provoked.
The unrest was provoked by the release of a new national budget with significant tax increases.
Your lad was provoked.
Where there is evidence on which the jury confined the defendant was provoked.
My interruption was provoked by shock.
If you knew Dwyane you know the guy was provoked.
That he was provoked.
It might have been if my State Department did not feel Indian action was provoked.
Not unless he was provoked.
Russia was provoked by the Truman doctrine.
It seems as if he was provoked.
Jack was provoked.
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