Example sentences for: provocative

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

  • That must be what they mean by "provocative."

  • In this provocative and often brilliant book, Amar shows us what his Truth School would look like.

  • The most provocative gossip of the past two weeks came from the normally speak-no-evil Liz Smith, who reported that when Clinton first came into office, a former first lady who kept in touch with the Secret Service told her that Clinton was "totally out of control in the White House when it came to women."

  • I came to this insight from Frank J. Tipler's book The Physics of Immortality , all of which is wonderfully provocative and some of which is convincing.

  • The inventors of the television, the computer, and plastics make the list, as do more provocative choices: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jean Piaget . Newsweek 's cover chronicles "2000 Years of Jesus."


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