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How to use provocatively in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word provocatively? Here are some examples.

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In the minds of both males and females, girls dress provocatively to garner a certain reaction.
It's just that I feel this piece is so provocatively unusual, it takes a lot of lateral thinking to fully appreciate the intricately evil themes.
She's already larked about in her undies for a camera, and she's also made vague allusions to wanting to dress up provocatively for the series.
The honest lyrics, however unsettling they may sometimes be, are provocatively and insightfully moving.
As leader of the provocatively named Self-Defense Party, he was deemed a demagogue by opponents.
War-torn Germany is provocatively portrayed with bombed-out buildings and spontaneous marketplaces arising out of stark, rubble-lined streets.
Once inside the joint, you see girls with black-rimmed glasses lolling around the sofas, riffling Penguin classics provocatively.
What makes the book perhaps provocatively interesting is the unspoken context.
He accused the company of acting provocatively after his members were warned to stick to company regulations when they return to work tomorrow.
It is the responsibility of civil society to defeat these elements, he provocatively declared.
He provocatively argues that comprehensive economic sanctions can lead to a restructuring of the renegade regime's ideology.
He provocatively asserts that material obstacles to a woman's literary production are far less significant than psychosexual ones.
Erin may dress provocatively and have little education but she is highly intelligent and hard-working despite her outward appearance.
The parenting website helped create the design to reflect the views of parents that children should not dress provocatively at such a young age.
A few months previously she had posed provocatively in silk pyjamas for a magazine article.
He has theorized biology more provocatively than anyone else in the last three decades.
As artists we enjoy being provocatively inventive, suspicious of authority, and dismissive of the past.
He seems, by turns, to be persuasively sophisticated and provocatively direct.
Karon provocatively suggested that one cannot teach what one does not know.
In La Belle Rafaela, 1927, de Lempicka provocatively posed a Parisian prostitute in a close-up image as voluptuous female odalisque or reclining nude.
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Kit immediately raised her left one, and waggled it provocatively over her shoulder.
The only change was in her eyes, which no longer smiled into his so provocatively.
She smiled up at him provocatively and his sombre face lightened.
She allowed herself to smile mysteriously, provocatively at him.
The words were wafted back to us provocatively upon the evening air.
The gender issues, for example, raised provocatively in the early chapters, virtually disappear as an analytic frame in the later ones.
They sit provocatively on a mound of angel hair pasta, the result a comforting dish of extraordinary satisfaction.
She poses provocatively in a short flowery skirt, cheekily sticks her tongue out with a pal and squeals with delight.
Cannon's reconquista allies couldn't have phrased that smear more provocatively had they scripted his comments themselves, as they likely did.
In a few of the pictures, the 'We Can't Stop' hit maker can be seen wearing a minute leotard and posing provocatively with a soda can.
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