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Example sentences for "inciting"

Lexicographically close words:
incite; incited; incitement; incitements; incites; incivility; inclemencies; inclemency; inclement; inclina
  1. The newspapers represented these meetings as those of irresponsible agitators, inciting the "mob" to violence.

  2. Thus far, the aim of inciting violence on the part of the strikers had completely failed everywhere.

  3. The British consul, David Turnbull, of whom we shall hear more later, was unpopular with the planters, who accused him of inciting their slaves to rebellion.

  4. One Spanish officer had a grudge against a young Englishman and accused him of inciting the negroes on an estate to poison their master; and the Englishman paid the forfeit of his life for a crime of which he was entirely guiltless.

  5. He hung the Englishmen who were inciting savages to the murder of our women and children: and the policy of the measure has become no less apparent than its legality was clear.

  6. Mr. Benton determined to resist it, and to make a case for the consideration and judgment of Congress and the country, with the view of exposing a forced unconstitutional tender, and inciting the country to a general resistance.

  7. Surely such language would come within the 20th Section of the Constitution: Inciting to violence against the person of the Head of the State by misrepresentation or otherwise.

  8. Upon the day of election this circumstance was remembered, and his opponents made the most of it, by inciting the crowd to keep up an incessant cry of "What a shocking bad hat!

  9. Sergeant Shepherd was heard at great length on the other side, and contended that his client was perfectly justified in taking into custody a man who was inciting others to commit a breach of the peace.

  10. Father has been reading the most beautiful inciting things about a saint called John, who wrote a story about the New Jerusalem.

  11. It is so inciting all about it," continued the little girl, "and I can see the marquee quite splendidly from here, and mother flitting about.

  12. As yet I looked upon crime as a distant evil; benevolence and generosity were ever present before me, inciting within me a desire to become an actor in the busy scene where so many admirable qualities were called forth and displayed.

  13. He was for ever inciting me to obtain literary reputation, which even on my own part I cared for then, though since I have become infinitely indifferent to it.

  14. Upon the day of election this circumstance was remembered, and his opponents made the most of it, by inciting the crowd to keep up an incessant cry of "What a shocking bad hat!

  15. Meteoric phenomena, their effect in inciting to the Crusades, ii.

  16. The attack was conducted with unceasing vigor, not only on sea, but on land, the Americans literally carrying the war into Africa by inciting Hamet, the deposed Bashaw of Tripoli, to attack the brother who had usurped his throne.

  17. The world would weigh on her confession of the weight of the world on her child; she would want inciting and strengthening, if one judged of her capacity to meet the trial by her recent bearing; and how was he to do it!

  18. It becomes a subjugation; inciting to revolt, but a heavy weight to cast off.

  19. But, as she would have said, that was before the indiscretion of her girl had shown her to require for her husband a man whose character and station guaranteed protection instead of inciting to rebellion.

  20. We, who had suffered sentences of nine months' imprisonment for inciting women to mild rebellion, had seen a labour leader who had done his best to incite an army to mutiny released from prison in two months by the Government.

  21. From the Government's point of view this was a much more serious kind of inciting than ours, because if it had been responded to the authorities would have been absolutely crippled in maintaining order.

  22. That speech of mine, just quoted, will probably strike the reader as one inciting to violence and illegal action, things as a rule and in ordinary circumstances quite inexcusable.

  23. Two favourite Irish terriers, in violation of an all-precautionary training, molested a death adder, the emulation of each inciting the other to recklessness.

  24. The wider black margin on her wings is no badge of subserviency, but rather an additional charm inciting tremulous fascination.

  25. I won't accuse him, as the world does, of inciting me to drink and gambling.

  26. I lived, as I vainly imagined, without inciting enmity or malice, and my mind was wholly occupied by the desire of earning well-founded fame.

  27. My nights were sleepless, my days miserable; my soul was tortured by the desire of fame; a consciousness of innocence was a continued stimulus inciting me to end my misfortunes.

  28. An unprovoked wrong inflicted by some one reckless white man upon an Indian was liable to be avenged by an attack on some train, the owners of which were ignorant of the inciting cause.

  29. It will then be attracted to him and haunt him as a demon, inciting him to evil deeds which he himself abhors.

  30. Then such a character will usually seek to “get even” as he calls it, he will go about for a long time inciting others to commit murder and other crimes.

  31. This was a bold stroke; but there was a risk of inciting Ludovico Sforza to start one of those political plots that he was so familiar with, never recoiling from any situation, however dangerous it might be.

  32. At the same time he sent messengers to the Montenegrins and the Servians, inciting them to revolt, and organised insurrections in Wallachia and Moldavia to the very environs of Constantinople.

  33. McClung,[7] inciting a company which formerly had been under his command, dashed on, followed by Captain Willis.

  34. H] Gitlow was tried, convicted and sentenced in New York City early in 1920, for inciting to anarchy.

  35. In the spring of 1919 reports reached the United States that the Bolsheviki had been inciting our troops in the Archangel District of Russia to disloyalty against our government.

  36. Her face was very pale, but her eyes were jet black and sparkling with a flame that burned down to the steel of the man, inciting him to recklessness, and he threw reason to the winds.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inciting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    encouragement; incendiary; incentive; inflammatory