Sample Sentences for
incite
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    That would, they hoped, incite the Confederacy to continue the war against the Union.  (source)
    incite = provoke (arouse feelings leading to)
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    The mass struggle session had turned into a scene of madness, and her appearance would only incite more violence.  (source)
    incite = provokes (arouse feelings leading to)
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    He had just finished reading Doctor Zhivago, a book that incited him to scribble excited notes in the margins and underline several passages: Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields.  (source)
    incited = inspired
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    It was strange, that moment; strange because I could never have predicted the feeling her words incited in me, the way that I saw her now with that small enticing waist, saw the round, plump curve of her breasts and those delicate, pouting lips.†  (source)
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    And according to Mr. Mulligan, I like to incite trouble, so this class should be fun.  (source)
    incite = provoke (arouse feelings leading to)
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    My father could have made good money selling them, but if the officials found out he would have been publicly executed for inciting a rebellion.  (source)
    inciting = encouraging
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    But Owen Meany could not be persuaded to protect himself; he told Dan Needham that the nature of Mrs. Lish's incitement constituted "A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY"; not even to save himself from Randy White's wrath would Owen Meany repeat what a slanderous rumor he had heard.  (source)
    incitement = provocation (something said that aroused strong feelings)
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    My poor timing has ruined the drama of the event and now the smile on my face incites angry whispers.  (source)
    incites = provokes or causes
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    To be losing such pleasures was no trifle; to be losing them, because she was in the midst of closeness and noise, to have confinement, bad air, bad smells, substituted for liberty, freshness, fragrance, and verdure, was infinitely worse: but even these incitements to regret were feeble, compared with what arose from the conviction of being missed by her best friends, and the longing to be useful to those who were wanting her!†  (source)
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    The three hens who had been the ringleaders in the attempted rebellion over the eggs now came forward and stated that Snowball had appeared to them in a dream and incited them to disobey Napoleon's orders.†  (source)
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    In 1857, Pope Pius IX decided that the accurate representation of the male form might incite lust inside the Vatican.  (source)
    incite = provoke (arouse feelings leading to)
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    Because, sure, there were issues with my grades (and plenty of other stuff Mr. Beeman didn't know about) but the inciting incident, the thing that had got me called in, the whole business with the cigarettes in the courtyard—whose fault was that?  (source)
    inciting = provocation (arousing feelings that led to bad actions)
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    I fancied that as they consumed, he recalled the pleasure they had already imparted, and the triumph and ever-increasing pleasure he had anticipated from them; and I fancied I guessed the incitement to his secret studies also.†  (source)
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