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 know little of the wrongs," he answered, sternly, "which for years have goaded me; and which, if unrevenged, would brand me with worse than a coward's infamy.
From The Rivals of Acadia An Old Story of the New World by Harriet Vaughan Cheney
It was unwise, considering what lay at the bottom of her heart, to have goaded the damsel as she had done.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
And this was admirable; for so hot The fire was, that were red Vesuvius loaded, Besides its lava, with all sorts of shot And shells or hells, it could not more have goaded.
From Don Juan by George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
