goad
noun
a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
have goaded
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present perfectof goad.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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At the same time, the demand for women's rights and the bishops' halfway efforts to accommodate it have goaded female traditionalists into action.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the states have not moved fast enough, citizens have goaded local governments into devising ways to slow growth or stop it cold.
From Time Magazine Archive
You have forced your daughter to drop her church work, and have goaded her into the society of people whose only claim to respectability is their wealth.
From That Printer of Udell's by Harold Bell Wright
What could have goaded him on to his unhappy end!
From The Midnight Passenger : a novel by Richard Savage
It would have goaded almost any man into excitement and irritability, but it was all in a day's work with Lawson.
From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson
