Example Sentences

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has been goading Albany to soak the rich, responded to the proposals: “I’m grateful.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

At times it is as if he has been goading Roman Abramovich, a notoriously trigger-happy owner.

From The Guardian • May 18, 2018

All these years since first we met at Rijnburg he has been goading and spurring me on to give my deepest thought to the world.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel

I know one of the brotherhood, at least, whose conscience has been goading him these five years, and yet he perseveres.

From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society

Why, Agnes, that is what the governor has been goading me to do.

From The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man by Flagg, James Montgomery