incite
verb (used with object)
to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action.
had been inciting
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past perfect progressiveof incite.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Kiswani said on X that pro-Israel groups had been inciting people to target her.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
The Mullahs, or priests, had been inciting the tribesmen to insurrection; and one especially, who was called the Mad Mullah, had gone about from tribe to tribe, stirring the people up.
From Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti by Walter Paget
She had been inciting her son all the time to undertake wonderful salvage work by annexing the heiress of Henry Allègre—the woman and the fortune.
From The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes by Joseph Conrad
"Your wife's brother," he said aloud, "Mr. Markelov, has been seized by the peasants whom he had been inciting to rebellion, and is now under arrest in the governor's house."
From Virgin Soil by R. S. Townsend
