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Example sentences for: provocation

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

Close's career of deliberate provocation is airbrushed out.
I put my foot down and insisted that there are just times I need to be by myself, and while she accepts that in principle, I often feel on my guard, as she often gets extremely upset with little provocation if I don't give her enough attention.
However, the sentence could just as well have appeared in a government report expressing an admonition to keep the numbers secret, based on the fact that numbers of such magnitude would anger the slaves' descendents and on an assumed law to the effect that sufficient provocation caused people to rebel.
Two types of pain provocation tests were used: digital pressure (within 5 cm of the midline) and lumbar percussion.
A reference standard used for palpatory pain provocation tests has been the visual analog or numeric pain scale [ 105 106 107 ] .