Example Sentences

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The Brazilian Volleyball Confederation said in a statement it “repudiates any kind of violence or incitation to violent action.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2023

Between these voices of reason and incitation, between these two seemingly different men, lie 22 years of power and five U.S. presidents.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2022

"The film was never intended as a stigmatization of the banlieue, nor an incitation to violence, nor above all, as an underhanded way to deliver a racist message," they stated.

From Time Magazine Archive

The incitation passes to the hippocampus, where it is built up into an emotional process.

From Time Magazine Archive

The essential feature of the violin is the incitation of the vibration by means of the bow.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)