Example Sentences

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“The transit was unremarkable, unprovocative and consistent with international law.”

From Washington Times • Nov. 2, 2023

In it, the composer Charles Wuorinen derided minimalism as “utterly unchallenging, unprovocative kind of music,” an unfortunate byproduct of decreasing cultural sophistication and increasing hunger for instant gratification.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2020

“Bad Blood” is a relatively unprovocative song, in which Swift tells her enemy “Now we got problems / And I don’t think we can solve them.”

From Time • Mar. 2, 2015

In fact, the joy of his keen, intelligent and happily unprovocative show was that nothing appeared labored.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2015

He was greatly interested in as much of the story as he could follow—Emmy was somewhat discursive—and as his interjectory remarks were unprovocative of argument, he constituted himself a good listener.

From Septimus by Locke, William John