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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:

It is a perpetual spur, an unremitting goad.

Her mustang did not need to be goaded.

Then through these they guided their goaded steeds.

This is the goad that only prickles me.

Its affected carelessness goaded him to fresh words.

The epithet stung Quest like a flaming goad.

Goaded by torturing thoughts, Claire trudged stoically forward.

A goad; the point of a spear or pike.

Thus goaded on, the courts acted with promptness.

Goaded beyond endurance, Doris faced Ronald Trent defiantly.

She goaded his timidity; she fired his rage.

I goaded Jake on to coming down to the sawmill.

Thus goaded and disarmed he can produce a masterpiece.

"Ply the goad on the horses into the bog."

The words were like the bellow of a goaded bull.

Each was goaded on by a troop of ardent backers.

Under his rapacious tyranny the people were goaded to fury.

I have been goaded in turn, and took it without whimpering.

Many would remain, but a goad impels them forward.

He waved his arms savagely, goading on his companions.

His grief goaded him so that he went about aimlessly.

I plunged into the forest, goaded by an indefinable terror.

The countryman was urging him forward with a goad.

Do bullocks goad one another on whom the same yoke rests?

This last taunt seemed to goad the Doctor beyond endurance.

Cora let her glance rest dreamily upon the goaded boy.

His every-day life has been set about by goading wretchedness.

The sense of his powerlessness stung Bob like a goad.

Because the socialists goad political economy, they are incarnate devils!

Goaded by stupid, unsympathetic people, they do this in self-defense.

Shouted the man, goaded to frenzy by this feminine obstinacy.

She was restive under the goad to return to France.

The two nymphs will have jealous rage to goad them on.

His tongue balked before the revelation, but he goaded it on.

"Colonel, this is quite insufferable," I cried, goaded almost to madness.

It is unwise in a poet to goad the sleeping lion of laughter.

Millicent was actress enough not to flinch from the goad.

Then Old Morality, goaded to madness, "pounced" right and left.

Theodoric was goaded into the most audacious undertaking of his life.

He had all along been goaded by a vague sense of dishonor.

Goaded by these wild cheers, Jules Favre doubled his invective.

It is the sluggish ox alone that is governed by a goad.

Macbeth is goaded on by necessity; to Richard, blood is a pastime.

Behold the excitement that allures me, the ambition that goads.

Whichever way he turned, the barbed irons goaded him to desperation.

She quivered, and clenched her hands, as if goaded beyond endurance.

Judith whistled shrilly, but Sioux had been goaded beyond her control.

Again Frederick cowered down, then rose, goaded to the last degree.

The driver goaded him, and the vizier cursed; but in vain.

At last the natives, goaded beyond endurance, rose against their oppressors.

They were intensified by suppression, and goaded him to constant restlessness.

The second day they goaded us forward from daybreak to sunset.

Either it was or was not justly goaded by 'abolition' into secession.

He spoke with the dogged recklessness of a man goaded to desperation.

If he does not, a little judicious goading will set him on.

Let it take as a perpetual goad the fate of the Wallace goblets.

His passion for her, irritated by obstacles, goaded him to delirium.

William said in the voice of one goaded against his will into exasperation.

Perhaps her rebuff that morning had goaded him to his decision.

What if he could be cajoled or goaded to take arms against him?

Towards this the riders were madly goading on their panting horses.

Elizabeth, with fiendish malice, was goading on her subjects to rebellion.

Their pleadings and wily persuasions only served to goad him on.

The music was a spur, goading him to wild unreasoning anger.

The disgraceful secret, known to them alone, goaded him up against her.

Sentinels tugged at the huge wooden door, and Lopez goaded them on.

Mockery and laughter, meant to goad on his adversary to mad indiscretion.

This disgraceful secret, known to them alone, goaded him up against her.

Some staggered on with closed eyes, guided and goaded by the attendants.

His every day of life has been set about by goading wretchedness.

Esther could not leave this strange sufferer with his goading conscience.

He was trying to goad Jackson into ferrying them over the riotous stream.

He shrieked the name again and again, goading into life the waning applause.

The expression of heavenly beatitude on Moriarty's face goaded my mind to activity.

Why, my little captive couldn't be coaxed or goaded into harming a fly.

The executioners goaded on the tiger until it at last devoured its prey.

Goaded at last by her delicate but determined insinuations, Courtland told her.

The boss thrust the goad into the hand of the bashful fellow.

"I'm as good an American as you are already," cried Otto, goaded beyond endurance.

Norma, goaded out of her customary shyness, had pleaded her cousin's marriage.

Oxen will grow lazy and insensible under threat, or scream, or goad.

The Indians, however, goaded on by Arnold's emissaries, insisted on instant retreat.

Their very luster arises from the pain that is goading them within.

The warm taste of it in his mouth goaded him to greater fierceness.

Ah, that is why you laughed when I spoke of the iron goads.

Was the desire to avenge her modesty goaded by some other unacknowledged desire?

They do not turn upon their tormentors till they are goaded to madness.

Her ceaseless cry was goading the brave little beast like a spur.

Said the Rector, who was much goaded and aggravated by this remark.

The blood pounded in his temples, throbbing, pulsing, goading him to fight.

Again he became inarticulate, muttering deeply in his throat like an animal goaded to savagery.

And his pal, goaded also by weariness, raised his voice from the ranks.

He can, when necessary, pester responsible persons till they are goaded into action.

I was goaded to the rejoinder by the sharp sting of this hornet.

The jeering laughter and contemptuous defiance of the man goaded them to madness.

The people have been put up to mischief, and goaded on in an unheard-of manner.

At this moment she was not goaded by pique or any petty feeling.

It is irritating to be goaded into violent emotion by one who is feeling nothing.

Goaded into uncontrollable madness, even the slave will sometimes turn upon his oppressor.

I roared, goaded to the very verge of insanity by these accumulated misadventures.