Instigate in a sentence as a verb

\n• Continued to instigate police officers who were securing the scene.

It's actually quite sad you first have to instigate a media racket before the police will even look into your case.

Then instigate a plan to cover their asses the next time this happens, because if they continue as a service this probably will happen more often.

There's no reason to suggest, had United States and Britain not instigate the 1953 coup, the Iranian government would be a bad government.

Working for the military of an enemy state to undermine the government and instigate rebellion.

I think burning google effigies is a good PR tactic in renewing, or dramatizing the issue in the public sphere to hopefully instigate needed action as concern zoning laws.

Not that they shouldn't care about them, but the loud-mouthed, posturing alpha dev stereotype gets too much airtime on the Internet because they instigate drama and drive hits by playing on the audience.

This is not a background process but a way for a user to actively share data between web apps - it's a "push" action the user must instigate, not a "pull" from the third-party wanting access to the data.

Microsoft's earnings are tightly coupled to the tech churn they themselves instigate; it is impossible to count on their new technologies until each gains self-perpetuating inertia.

As a reaction a bunch of less crazy humans pull them out and instigate a defensive law against "over-loving animal", and then any blogger who's sent a caturday pic is suspitious forever.

Thus, if Twitter starts to provide a crappy service, it will be much harder for competitors to instigate a Gmail-like disruption because they won't be able to interoperate with existing Twitter users.

Instigate definitions

verb

provoke or stir up; "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people"

See also: incite

verb

serve as the inciting cause of; "She prompted me to call my relatives"

See also: prompt inspire