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Example sentences for: goaded

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(In interviews, he said that his father remarked on the puniness of his Rocky physique, a dig that clearly goaded Stallone into pumping himself up, in all senses.)
Put differently, conservatives such as Bush were goaded into action by the obvious unfairness of a state-subsidized university system that more or less denies access to blacks and Hispanics.
He acts therefore like a slave, not animated by inclination but goaded by fear.
Bird goaded and inspired his own teammates, and they heeded him: If he told a teammate to do something, he did it.
Meanwhile, Frank is being goaded on by Democratic allies New York's Jerrold Nadler and California's Howard Berman (a Jerry Springer lookalike, incidentally).