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

Pouncing quickly, M. Schuman charged L'Humanit� with criminal incitation to revolt.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The prisons, meanwhile, were filled with suspects, declared royalists, and refractory priests, taken red-handed in the incitation of civil war—all guilty on the first count.

From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Sue, Eug?ne