Sample Sentences forprovocation (auto-selected)
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"Well I don't," said Uncle Jack, "not unless there's extreme provocation connected with 'em." (source)provocation = something that causes a violent or angry reaction
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None of us could figure out the provocation, but that did not matter.† (source)
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Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation.† (source)
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Killing them in their home without provocation would be rude!† (source)
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Seldom to the point of death unless there were outrageous profit or provocation in it.† (source)
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Did she dissolve into tears or launch into tantrums at the slightest provocation?† (source)
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It was a composure born of extreme provocation.† (source)
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It wasn't obvious aggression, just small provocations.† (source)
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An aircraft in flight was a provocation too strong to ignore.† (source)
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And we're not going to be stopped by military provocations.† (source)
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Lesser butlers will abandon their professional being for the private one at the least provocation.† (source)
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Although some disturbances had already occurred, and the troops had committed all kinds of retaliatory abuses, Florentino Ariza was so befuddled that he was unaware of the state of the world, and a military patrol surprised him one dawn as he disturbed the chastity of the dead with his amorous provocations.† (source)
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But Nelson as a pupil is apt to turn teacher himself at the least provocation.† (source)
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But I have other provocations.† (source)
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How can you expect us to regard this as anything other than a provocation?† (source)
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He had not the same provocations of exhaustion and hopelessness; he had now something to work for, to struggle for.† (source)
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