Example Sentences

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A: I think that the assertion that the reporting of these events will incite more violence and copycat behavior is an assertion.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2022

“What’s in a Name,” by the great Ana Luísa Amaral, will incite you to look with wonder into the minutiae of everyday life.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2022

Perhaps this bulletin-board material will incite players and coaches alike to prove your paper’s most disagreeable writer is full of hogwash.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2019

What is it that makes a person from a seemingly ordinary background able to create something, with their very presence, that will incite the devotion of millions of people?

From The New Yorker • Dec. 6, 2018

This is a powerful motive in conduct, but the kind of conduct to which it will incite clearly depends on the kind of thing that our neighbors approve.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra