What is "goading"

Usage examples of "goading".

Drizzt took a small step backward, goading the giant into the great cat's path.

Masoj blurted without thinking, too shocked by the revelation to consider that Drizzt might merely be goading him into a larger admission.

Perhaps, though, Crenshinibon sees you as a threat-a likely and logical assumption-and is merely goading you into this so that you and your comrades might be thoroughly destroyed.

The worm, released from his goading, sulked on the surface for a few breaths, then sank its front third and lay there recuperating, a sure sign that it had been ridden too long.

It came to a halt ten meters away and no manner of goading would send it across another grain of sand.

For Abelaard, and for a strange goading at the borders of his thought—some reason he could not put words around.

Instead, they were concluding a long speculation as to what the Lady Judyth wore beneath that purple cloak and riding tunic, each sentry goading the other to inch aside the curtain and peer in on the girl as she undressed for her bath.

Using a huge pile of bricks assembled over the past two years, and goading Knollys’ slaves to extra efforts, she made various bold moves.

Even now, he could feel the men at the other tables watching him out of the corners of their eyes, silently goading him on.

Silently, she willed him to be sensible, to realize that for the first time in months nobody was goading him on, but she was the only one not caught by surprise when he suddenly pushed back his tankard, stood up, and, in a shrill voice, said, "I don't believe it.

What Calvin wanted was the hot, dark heartfire that was leading them and goading them on.