Example sentences for: provocateur

How can you use “provocateur” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft's "company provocateur," is profiled.

  • Getting back to Chris Ofili: No, I do not think that his inclusion of porn cutouts in the painting brands him as a rude provocateur.

  • Another documentary in which left-wing provocateur Michael Moore ( Roger & Me ) hounds CEOs.

  • She could be a gleeful provocateur, like one of those Ibsen characters who lives to hurl sticks of dynamite into "the damned, compact majority."

  • For a while, they lived in a ménage á trois with the valet de chambre, but the valet was arrested as an agent provocateur, following a coup d'état manqué, which turned out to be a débacle.


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