Goad

//ɡəʊd//

"Goad" in a Sentence (12 examples)

She tended cattle and she sang so sweetly that the herds were delighted with her song, and she needed neither the crook nor the goad to manage them; they obeyed her voice, and gazed at and listened to the maid as she sat under the shade of a pine tree, crowned with a garland of its leaves and singing the loves of Pan and Pitys the Nymph.

The challenge seemed to goad her into action.

His relentless teasing was meant to goad her into responding.

The coach's motivational speech was a goad for the team's determination.

The farmer prodded cattle with a goad.

He used a goad to drive the oxen.

The shepherd carried a sharp goad for herding sheep.

The shepherd carried a sharp goad for herding the sheep.

The goad helped the farmer control the plowing oxen.

the daily goad urging him to the daily toil

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I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads.

goading a boy to fight

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