goad
noun
a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
are goading
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present progressiveof goad.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Instigators on social media already are goading Durant, who can’t resist clapping back.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2022
We are thus living amid circumstances which are goading the industrial activity characteristic of the last two centuries, and notably of the English race, into an almost feverish energy.
From The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske
Roger: No, that were a crime Against honor and friendship; girl, girl, have a care— You are goading my poor, tortured heart to despair.
From Three Women by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Hugo: When the Norman rowels are goading, When glitters the Norman glaive, Thou shalt call upon Thor and Odin: They shall not hear thee nor save.
From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
