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verb

incite

to encourage or stir up violent or unlawful behavior

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Six example sentences with incite, each labelled with its topic.

  • The statute punishes anyone who deliberately tries to incite a crowd into breaking through police barricades.

    Law

  • Election monitors warned that the pamphlets were designed to incite voters into blockading the counting center.

    Politics

  • Server moderators ban players who incite others to flood a rival guild's chat with automated spam.

    Gaming

  • The pamphlet was printed to incite the villages to withhold the salt tax, and within a month twelve of them had.

    History

  • The venue fined the band after the singer tried to incite the crowd to climb over the barriers onto the stage.

    Music

  • Censors banned the film in 1932, claiming its prison scenes would incite audiences to defy the police.

    Movies

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