INCITE in a Sentence

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And thanks to the incitement of the Freedmen's Bureau, negroes could always be found who were willing to bring accusations.

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 Meanings and Examples of INCITE
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incite
 v.  arouse to action; motivate; induce to exist
Classic Sentence:
1  But when both of these incitements to virtuous behavior began to recur less frequently, corruption spread, and after the time of Atilius Regulus, no like example was again witnessed.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I.
2  And thanks to the incitement of the Freedmen's Bureau, negroes could always be found who were willing to bring accusations.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  Now they had not only the Bureau agitators and the Carpetbaggers urging them on, but the incitement of whisky as well, and outrages were inevitable.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  These words redoubled the eagerness of d'Artagnan, who urged his horse, though he stood in need of no incitement, and they proceeded at a rapid pace.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS
5  Fiercely, but evenly incited by the taunts of the German, the Pequod's three boats now began ranging almost abreast; and, so disposed, momentarily neared him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
6  The dog, incited by its master, sprang over the wicket-gate and pursued the unfortunate baronet, who fled screaming down the yew alley.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
7  Popes, kings, and knights incited the peoples to free the Holy Land; but the people did not go, for the unknown cause which had previously impelled them to go no longer existed.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  In a fiery speech, Mario and his fellow students incite audience to go out on strike to protest the government.
2  It urges the immediate cessation of all acts of violence, provocation, incitement and destruction, and calls upon to return to negotiations.
3  There was no evidence that he had incited members of the group to violence.