Sentences with goad
goad
G g - He wondered if the psychiatrist was trying to goad him into some unguarded response. [VERB noun + into]
- His opposition acted as a goad to her determination to succeed.
- The threat of legal action is a powerful goad to companies that have ignored the regulations.
- Ankusha, the goad held in Lord Ganesha's right hand is used to remove obstacles from dharma's path.
- Ellie uses wit as a goad to try to force people to see what is in front of them.
- goading a boy to fight
- But in the end, methodology was the real goad spurring on most of the participants.
- Chinese Staff serves as an intermediary between immigrant workers and labor enforcement agencies, acting as a goad to both sides.
- At one stage I thought she was deliberately trying to goad him into walking out - but somehow it didn't seem like it was enough.
- After a certain point, I'd give up, at which point Ed would goad me into another confrontation where he would do the same thing.
- Murray, who tells the story over six nights at Zuckerman's rural New England hideaway, was the writer's high-school English teacher, his goad and guru.
- In some ways it seems on his account that music is a way of creating society, and thus is a goad to further selection, a social selection as it were, for greater complexity of hominid capabilities.
- I have a lad driving the oxen with a goad, who is now hoarse because of the cold and from shouting.
- In the new millennium you won't need to fight about spotted owls or old growth or any other flavor-of-the-moment crisis cooked up by environmentalists who are trying to goad you into a fight for the purpose of enriching their coffers.
- Assimilation properly channeled and exploited can thus become a kind of blessing, for assimilation bears within it a certain seminal power which serves as a challenge and a goad to renewed creativity.
- Someone who rubs you the wrong way, who gets on your every nerve, who always seems to be trying to goad you into acts of violence and mayhem?
- Eros is the age-old goad and rarely the sex act itself.
- I didn't realise that people would attempt to goad us into aggression at regular intervals.
- When I used to meet him regularly outside the Brompton Oratory after his Sunday devotions, it took little prompting to goad him into a diatribe against his latest enemy.
- Still, I haven't found a mobile phone tiny enough to goad me into switching.
- It's also a justifiable goad to the United States to step up and reclaim the role of leader when it comes to human rights.
- Even if a picture suggested by theory were not precisely correct, intelligent speculation is a goad for more intense experimental scrutiny.
- But in any issue, we should be prepared to think carefully, and not let our reaction to extremists goad us into overlooking any Biblical principles that apply.
- Nagasena asks whether then the chariot is the pole, the axle, the wheels,… the reins and the goad all together.
- What I intended as a provocative metaphorical goad, Hart took literally as a definite and categorical challenge, which I welcome.