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Definition of goad:

  • (noun) a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion
  • (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something;
  • (verb) give heart or courage to
  • (verb) urge with or as if with a goad
  • (verb) stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick
  • (verb) goad or provoke,as by constant criticism; "He needled her with his sarcastic remarks"

Sentence Examples:

She helps everything to its legitimate development, but applies no goads, and forces on us no sharp distinctions.

Sinking back into his chair, he again was a prey to the armed fears that continually goaded him.

Every plunge of the excited horse brought it against the horns again, and goaded it to fresh madness.

A confusion of minor issues comes crowding for settlement, small stabs to jar and goad in their trifling.

He never accepted the goad without a snort of resentment, a threatening shake of his short, sharp horns.

The goad of Aylmer's bribe had sent every man of them charging in the wake of his leadership.

He will be goaded to prosecution, though Owen has sent round circulars advising his followers to drop theology.

He was goaded by this unexpected attitude of hers to speak bitterly, to commit himself beyond the truth.

It is a goad, to prick sleeping human consciences awake and drive them into the battle for humanity.

Experience in similar cases seems to show that flight only goads the people on to plundering and destruction.

Only to return, goaded by an awful desire to search the old place over for the missing gold.

In this way the words of the wise are goads to prick and urge the faculties of inferior minds.

Was it the doctor's imagination, or did the goaded man at his side flash him a glance of appeal?

It so goaded Dare to have his antagonist in this trifling matter supported that he utterly lost his head.

Persuaded that the Duke was a traitor, the King allowed himself to be used to goad him into revolt.

And from every joint there projects a kind of beak, which resembles very closely a thick goad.

They required the stimulus of abundant food and often of strong drink to goad them to their various tasks.

Goaded by the wrongs they see so plainly waiting to be righted, they are in such a desperate hurry.

Now he was obliged to suppress it and goad himself into keeping to the comic side of the question.

Something in the calm proprietary tones, despite the service she had rendered him, goaded him to fury.

Is it not strange to what lengths the human family may be goaded by a continued series of oppression?

It seems, however, that he was despised for permitting it, and that his own conscience goaded him.

Why will you goad each other into saying things which you cannot recall, and which make you so wretched?

"I will not endure your interference any longer," she declared, goaded to headlong, nervous fury by his persistence.

His perception of her innocence was a goad to his appetite, and his despair augmented at losing her.

One of them is shewing his teeth, with a savage grin, whilst he is goading on the Apostles to execution.

Her many wrongs stood up in witness against the woman who, in her deep sorrow, thus goaded her.

It was sheer madness in King Edward to goad such a man to desperation by a series of deliberate insults.

And again in his voice rang that note which sounded like the goaded fury of some creature of the forest.

Her face became set and resolute, her eyes flashed, and she goaded her horse to the best speed.

Her intelligence was cruelly goaded to the realization that she had never been quite the woman for Cheever.

Failing in these, it has some madness, to which it is goaded by political or religious causes, or both combined.

Goaded by the pain the noble animal made a last effort to rise, but only to fall back dead.

Twist, who had become full-bodied of speech while in France, and when he was goaded let it all out.

"One boy, and a small one at that, shouldn't force you to undergo all that preparation," goaded the Boss.

It was a tyranny for which there was no justification, and it goaded her to the verge of hysteria.

It's not the first time you've goaded me into saying something, and then turned round on me for it.

She could maintain an ugly silence until goaded into speech, but, once launched, few of her juniors escaped humiliation.

And the remembered horror of those days of desolation goaded her toward a very insanity of fear and jealousy.

She had asked the same thing fifty times, and he had never been goaded to give the true answer.

Then something began to stir and rise up in my soul, like a snake goaded forth from her cavern.

With the words she sprang to her feet, and stood before him, goaded to frenzy, challenging his calm.

It might have provided a way of escape, at least temporarily, but Chris was too far goaded to see it.

And then I struck with my whip, knowing nothing, not seeing, only striking, like a goaded dying thing.

Nor was this state of feeling confined to those who were goaded by the frightful sufferings that prevailed.

Some had seen him so shaken by remorse that he roared like a lion goaded by hunger and the lance.

He was talking now to hurt her; there was a savage desire in his heart to goad her to anger.

It is the Nemesis that stalks through the world, haunting all men, and goading some to great wrong.

Ten years had passed, but Michael's blood still boiled at the remembrance which goaded him to fresh indignation.

These walk alongside with their long goads, and the entire progress of the caravan is one long shout.

His debts were heavy and pressing, no way of paying them open, and desperation had goaded him on.

The idea came suddenly into my mind like an inspiration from heaven, and I was goaded by it into action.

The new horror that his last words had aroused, goaded her into making yet another effort at persuasion.

The goaded woman struggles from his grasp, and shrieks for help at the very top of her voice.

The arbitrary disregard of parliamentary legislation, and the favor shown to Roman Catholics, goaded the Whigs into fury.

They are ever recalling the time when, goaded by love and sentiment, we spent whole days by their side.

It showed that Burr's desire was, not to satisfy his honor, but to goad his adversary to the field.

If he could goad the people to anger on the subject of slavery he would soon be rid of their apathy.

Such were the various causes, which combined first to alarm, and then to goad into madness, this unhappy people.

Crumpet was able to catch the meaning of that remark, and it goaded him almost to the striking point.

If I were in the place of my ancestor I would order you to have iron goads driven under your nails.

My boys, those thoughts were like a goad to me; 'twas as if I was urged on by some unseen power.

The father heeds him not, but goads him on, and, having slaughtered him, prepares a cursed meal.

Love goads more sharply and much more cruelly those who struggle, than those who agree to endure his servitude.

I was not happy, but I no longer felt the desperate loneliness and need that had goaded me before.

Cried Larry, goaded by the injustice of the accusations as well as by the tone of the faculty representative.

Certainly it was no longer the one goad to artistic production as had been the case in the age of Pericles.

Feeling that the audience would be sadly disappointed, I tried to goad him on, but nothing would move him.

Finally, goaded beyond endurance, I called Elmer into my apartment one day and put the whole case before him.

Had David Cannon shown any annoyance, she might have been goaded on to a supreme effort; but he avoided her.

More often he was conscious only of a vague and terrible extremity outside of himself that goaded him forever forward.

Instead of responding to the command to return, he himself began to run away and madly to goad his oxen.

"Yes, I sold the old farm," he said again, as if finding some delight in goading himself with the repetition.

They fought each other all day long, and it was their father himself who always goaded them on.

The elephants shrieked at the blows of the goad, but the car stirred not, and the people lamented.

If she had been the woman who can be gently goaded into reply, she would have made answer to this.

Is one acting spontaneously, as the result of accumulated strength, or is one merely reacting to a goad or to a stimulus?

The planners had counted on that to keep them going, because there could be no environmental challenge to goad them.

The ox, with the yoke on his neck, lashes out with his obstinate heels against the driver's goad.

Curiosity is as hungry as ever, still more eager concerning things than abstract ideas, and still a goad to active senses.

Instead of that, the man kept thrusting his goad at the elephant, and hurting him without any good cause.

Poverty is a goad, a thorn in the flesh of society, that is pushing it along the road of social reform.

Everywhere the white race urged activity like one who sits behind a horse and goads it with the whip.

They robbed the Indians, insulted their families, and inflicted upon them outrages which goaded the poor savages to desperation.

They are always urging me to take strong drink, and goading me on to the consumption of large quantities of meat.

The two children had broken into the barks that were their equivalent of weeping, one drawing its goading rod.

And, if the worst should happen, this diary remains as a proof of the goad that has driven me.

A combination of circumstances, old and new, had almost goaded me into madness, and I went on an expedition of revenge.

He affirmed that he had been goaded to rush out from the Opera, in sheer pain, seeking solace in street sounds!

He felt himself goaded on by the desire of fame; to be in motion seemed to be on the way to acquire it.

Having been on board several weeks, and goaded to death in various ways, four of us concluded to run the hazard.

And Paul remembered his dream, that had goaded him out of sleep, and vanished with the shock of waking.

He was not yet in the least convinced, but he was anxious, intensely and passionately anxious, goaded too by desire.

I believe he disposed of your father's medicine, and then deliberately goaded him into a rage to bring on a heart attack.

However, they were at last goaded, by the orders and threats of their officers, to open fire upon the ships.

When the sun rose, we set off again, our conductors utterly disregarding our anguish, and goading us on as before.

The Government, by its defiance, goaded the Opposition into adopting this dangerous measure, thinking thus to drive it to destruction.

Without caring what might be said of her, and goaded on by a fearful rage, she tried to follow them.

Deliver us from all foolish fear of changes since the goad moving all things onward is in our Father's hand.

I begged him not to goad me, for that I feared my feelings would not long remain in my power.