goad
noun
a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
were goading
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past progressiveof goad.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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It was as if they were goading Scotland now.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
“She would cross the road to bite your ankles, whether you were goading her or not!”
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2024
"It was probably an overcorrection from the criticism they were getting before. ... The protesters were goading them into attacking the crowd, but both the police and national guard wouldn't take their bait."
From Fox News ● Jun. 5, 2020
But as happens with scrappy entrepreneurial business competitors, in contrast to government bureaucracies, Bezos and Musk were goading each other on.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2018
They were exclaiming loudly against the gentry and the soldiers, and were goading one another on with incendiary speeches.
From The Day of Wrath by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
