goad
noun
a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
had goaded
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past perfectof goad.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Staley believed that someone had goaded the Sanders campaign into going nuclear on him, and he had no doubt about who that someone was.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2017
Callender was gleeful about what he had goaded Hamilton into.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2016
The comedian Tim Heidecker, of Tim & Eric, contacted various members of the Bush campaign, pretending to be Berger’s father, furious that they had goaded his mentally unstable son into ruining his body.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 7, 2016
That once meant that trolls were fooled into thinking they had goaded a man further and further into paranoid schizophrenia.
From The Verge ● Feb. 24, 2015
She had goaded him for years to learn to summon and aim lightning, with dismal results.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
