incite

Example Sentences

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IPO mania has begun, and nothing kickstarts initial public offerings like spreadsheets flashing green to incite the crowd.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

And in a brief explosive moment of recognition between their characters, Lane and Abbott incite the Winter Garden Theatre audience into a paroxysm of grief.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

The opportunity to actually engage with the multitude of conditions that may incite that violence feels unique and desperately needed.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026

The suggestion is that rates are very close to what is known as their neutral level - neither high enough to tame inflation pressures or low enough to incite them.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

I have thought that my family, having settled among immigrants who had also been their neighbors in the ancestral land, needed to clean their name, and a wrong word would incite the kinspeople even here.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston