Sample Sentences for
goad
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    She tried to goad the candidate into saying something extreme.
    goad = provoke or encourage
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    Why is he trying to goad me into giving up?  (source)
    goad = provoke or encourage (someone to do something)
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    Pst, pst, like a cat luring a mouse from its hole, they goad each other into quarrels and dissent.  (source)
    goad = provoked (anger or annoy into taking action)
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    I watched Stacey closely to see if he was going to allow himself to be goaded by T.J.; he was not.  (source)
    goaded = provoked (angered or annoyed into taking action)
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    It wasn't said in the tone the kapos used to taunt us or goad us into working harder.  (source)
    goad = push or provoke
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    I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and...  (source)
    goading = provoking or encouraging
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    And if the crowd does express its disapproval, it merely goads him on to bigger and better things, much in the way Tomas was spurred on by the difficulty of a diagnosis.†  (source)
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    the keen spurrings and goadings to gain the top of the opposite hill;†  (source)
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    Pick out a robe, most lovely and luxurious, most to your liking in the women's hall; place it upon Athena's knees; assure her a sacrifice of heifers, twelve young ones ungoaded ever in their lives, if in her mercy relenting toward our town, our wives and children, she keeps Diomedes out of holy Troy....He is a wild beast now in combat and pursuit.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in ungoaded means not and reverses the meaning of goaded. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Even though Attean annoyed him, Matt was constantly goaded to keep trying to win this strange boy's respect.  (source)
    goaded = provoked or encouraged
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    Yet the very idea of the oath itself—appearing at the end of that first chaotic year—became the final goad that prodded many once-loyal citizens to turn militantly anti-American.  (source)
    goad = provocation (something that angered or annoyed)
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    As they fought, the ground rumbled, and a monstrous voice chuckled somewhere beneath the earth, goading the animals to fight harder.  (source)
    goading = provoking (getting them to)
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    Nor had I ever listened to such goads to better effort—to slacken off, to push on, to go harder, faster, deeper—nor such huzzahs over gained first downs, such groans of despair over lost yardage, such shrill advice as to where to put the ball.†  (source)
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