How to Use goad in a Sentence

goad

1 of 2 verb

• The threat of legal action should goad them into complying.
• Toward the end of the tour, Sharon and I tried to goad him into coming over to our side of the stage.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2023
• Gibbs gets there first and pulls a gun, and Samuels tries to goad Gibbs into shooting him.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2021
• The goal: avoid anything that might goad the other team’s shooters.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
• Some countries have no desire to goad the Russian bear.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• The Ghoulie leader tries to goad Archie into hitting him.
  — Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 10 May 2018
• Roman’s nihilism is on full display when Kendall strides in to goad him back to work.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 30 May 2023
• That’s led them to threats and bribes to try and goad people in, only to yield predictable outcomes.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
• The fact that the media will be up in arms about the whole thing will goad Trump further, and Putin will be more than happy to go along for the troll.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 6 July 2018
• In the video, Greene and her companions continue to goad the staff while chuckling from outside the door.
  — Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN, 14 May 2021
• Some intense ambitions may goad you to burn the candle at both ends.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2021
• The only live question in this case is whether the Supreme Court can be goaded into wanting it as well.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2019
• Nor could the stage goad Diplo to dip further into his own credits.
  — Jon M. Gilbertson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2018
• James, goaded by Dillon Brooks after Game 2, attacked the basket for the first two points.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2023
• On my third run up and down the track, an instructor goaded me into hitting 25 miles per hour.
  — oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2019
• Then Chris goads Hannah into speaking about a few guys who have made this straining process worth it.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 18 June 2019
• After every game, reporters would hound him and goad him; under the pressure, Maris lost clumps of hair, or so the legend goes.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2022
• But the indictment goaded him to stand up for the former president.
  — Maya King, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• All in all, things aren't great for Dany, even before Cersei has Missandei killed seemingly to goad her.
  — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 May 2019
• Pacquiao's camp sure seems to be pushing for a rematch, or at the very least goad Mayweather into one.
  — Matt Bonesteel, courant.com, 24 July 2019
• Broncos star Von Miller goading Rivers into a mental mistake was a big play in that team not winning the West.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2023
• Her friends goaded her to record her resilience in a self-help book, complete with recipes, which made her into a local celebrity in the Bay Area.
  — Mayukh Sen, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
• Sports cars goad you into bursts of exuberance like that.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 19 Aug. 2023
• The people have to simply be goaded and herded into obeying the mai-baap sarkar’s* wishes.
  — K.n.c., The Economist, 16 Aug. 2019
• This is why Democrats constantly try to one-up each other in goading the president.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 14 June 2019
• For a while, Maddie tries to goad Percy into finding his inner wild boy.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 June 2023
• But now that the Supreme Court has opened the floodgates, the confusion and fear of many online entrepreneurs may goad Congress into action.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2018
• As Conover steps aside for Altschul's chef to clean the stain with club soda, Kroll tries to goad Patricia into saying the sofa is ruined.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2022
• Five centuries later, the European peasantry has once again been goaded to fury.
  — Tilak Doshi, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• After the attack, Mr. Navalny continued to goad the Kremlin.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024

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goad

2 of 2 noun

• The threat of legal action is a powerful goad to companies that have ignored the regulations.
• Fear of being sold to the Deep South was a frequent goad to flight.
  — Roger Lowenstein, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2022
• Who talks you out of your worst ideas and goads you toward your best ones?
  — Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
• The largest group carried goads for their teams of working steers.
  — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 17 June 2019
• So maybe biology doesn't need much of a goad to get started.
  — NBC News, 26 Jan. 2018
• It’s not solely Republicans who find themselves on the wrong end of Trump’s lash and goad.
  — Varad Mehta, Washington Examiner, 17 Dec. 2020
• Hitler’s deputy Martin Bormann is Gunther’s chief goad.
  — Richard Lipez, The Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2017
• The age of exploration, the first global corporations: Spice was the treasure on the far side of the map, a goad to invasion and domination.
  — Ligaya Mishan Patricia Heal Leilin Lopez-Toledo, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
• Setting unattainable goals doesn’t work well, but offering a reachable one can be a useful goad.
  — Dan Ariely, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2017
• Dominus strongly implies that Carney was caving to a goad on Gelman’s blog.
  — Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 19 Oct. 2017
• The author offers an impressive survey and a goad to further reading.
  — Benjamin Shull, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
• Politics now in Illinois is about herding the people, using their emotions as the shepherd’s goad.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 20 Feb. 2021
• The only difference was that, during Marcus’s birth, the amplified heartbeat was with us through the entire labor, a goad, and solace.
  — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2019
• Their fairly gentle demeanor means handlers can manage them with verbal commands and the judicious use of goad sticks.
  — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 17 June 2019
• Over the past two years, Ortega Diaz has become a goad to Maduro and his supporters, as the president increased his crackdown on dissent.
  — Andrew Rosati, Bloomberg.com, 30 June 2017
• The inventive Aquarius Moon goads impulsive Uranus, unwilling to relax or just let things be.
  — Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2023
• Luna then goads grandiose Jupiter, turning up the temperature further.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2023
• As the 30-year-old United man made his way into the stadium, a section of Liverpool fans approached him and proceeded the goad and hurl a number of verbal obscenities his way.
  — SI.com, 28 May 2018
• As the impressionable Moon in your group sector goads reckless Uranus in your finance sector, you might be tempted to spend money that wasn't in the budget on something speculative or just plain fun.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
• Thus began Johns’s career-long fascination with signs and symbols — not as a subject for representation, but as a goad to pure painting.
  — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
• The impulsive Moon in your 11th House of Community goads active Mercury in your spending sector, drawing your eye to a friend's cool purchase and pushing you to buy a similar item for yourself.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2023
• The book also served, throughout, as a worthwhile goad, spurring me to test its assertions against my own uneasy re-experience — as both avid user and resistant consumer of social photography.
  — Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2019
• As the contemplative Moon in your 4th House of Roots goads networker Mercury in your partnership sector, balance your longing to unburden yourself against the other person's comfort.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2023
• Morton is applying those lessons to winning local district councils, which have the ability to declare local climate emergencies that serve as a goad to the federal government.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2020
• Within the finite period of six years beginning in 1943, these books became both commercial phenomena and effective goads to the national soul.
  — Samuel G. Freedman, The Atlantic, 10 July 2023
• Everywhere Sharlet travels, far-right politicians at every level goad crowds into paranoia and violence with ideas born from Christian Nationalism.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• The partisan media is its instrument of choice, and the hotter a brouhaha in the news over whatever issue—taxes, entitlements, race, religion, class, trade, defense, choose your political goad—the greater the victory for Russia.
  — WSJ, 11 June 2018
• Stories like those emanating from San Francisco General can be powerful goads to federal lawmakers.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2019
• Musk’s warnings of civilizational destruction and call for regulation goad regulators into flying the yellow flag.
  — Robert Zafft, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• The threat of legal action is a powerful goad to companies that have ignored the regulations.

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024