Example sentences for: provocatively

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

  • Like pop and minimalism, it was provocatively easy to make.

  • Clinton also picked up lax attitudes about sex from his mother, who dressed provocatively in short shorts and tube tops, and his biological father, allegedly a bigamist.

  • To this day, for example, we cannot be sure whether it was primitive fear or mischievous humour that inspired a famous Indian woman to introduce herself to white people by her nickname ( Pocahontas , which provocatively suggests `Wanton Valley' or `Wild Place') rather than by her demure real name, Matowaka `Snowflake.

  • In other words, Thornhill and Palmer are asking the state to say that it believes that men are born rapists and that women are under an obligation not to dress or act provocatively.

  • The successful forager wiggles her abdomen provocatively from side to side, moving forward in a straight line.


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