How to Use provocateur in a Sentence

provocateur

noun

• Steele hasn’t been afraid to play the role of off-air provocateur.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Oct. 2021
• The rapper and provocateur is vying to win top gospel artist for the second year in a row.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 29 Apr. 2021
• Noé is a bit of a provocateur in the way that Lebron is kind of good at basketball.
  — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 14 May 2018
• At the same time, Roth was a provocateur from the beginning, in the sense that all essential artists are.
  — David L. Ulin, latimes.com, 23 May 2018
• Which might explain why, in 2018, the best music from hip-hop’s lead provocateur is rock and roll.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 14 June 2018
• Pitt was in the starring role of Tyler Durden, a soap salesman and provocateur who forms a fight club.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2022
• The phrase and the tags were conceived by the artist and provocateur Daniel Joseph Martinez, who later contributed to the 2008 show, and does again to the present one.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• Plastic Hearts, the Disney star-turned-pop provocateur's newest project, is Cyrus' homage of sorts to the 1980s.
  — Maura Johnston, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2020
• If Ethridge wasn’t so good at this, he could be dismissed as a joker, a provocateur.
  — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2022
• But the idea of handling such a gleeful provocateur with kid gloves seems to somehow miss the point of De Palma’s work.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
• All the same, this reviewer could not help longing for a glimpse of Madonna the provocateur.
  — C.m., The Economist, 19 June 2019
• The speech in question, of course, is one by alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.
  — Katherine Timpf, National Review, 2 Sep. 2017
• The provocateur asked her questions about her detainment and the trade the United States made for her release.
  — Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 11 June 2023
• The advisory viewed by The Post cites a tweet by right-wing provocateur Laura Loomer.
  — Shayna Jacobs, David Nakamura, Hannah Allam, Isaac Arnsdorf, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2023
• Justin Bieber is at it again — this time, the 23-year-old pop star provocateur has covered his torso in a massive tattoo.
  — Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 21 Oct. 2017
• There are four reporters at the heart of my book, plus one agitator and provocateur.
  — Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2022
• Before this, Gaga was seen as a shock-and-awe pop provocateur whose skill took a backseat to spectacle.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 28 Sep. 2018
• To instead prompt your leader to coach, make sure to approach them as a thought partner and provocateur of learning.
  — Carylynn Larson, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• Kat Von D, the tattoo artist turned beauty founder, has a long history as a provocateur.
  — Cheryl Wischhover, Vox, 18 Dec. 2018
• In fact, both have played the role of primetime provocateur for their respective outlets.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
• The grand marshal of the parade was a silly man named Milo Yiannopoulos, a provocateur who likes to start trouble.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• That is a mission very much in line with North Korea’s provocateur playbook.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Nov. 2020
• Film provocateur and #MeToo target Quentin Tarantino is working on a new film.
  — Meagan Fredette, refinery29.com, 23 June 2018
• In many ways, the ACA and health policy were natural targets for the provocateurs.
  — Paul Overberg, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
• Fox News host and right-wing provocateur Dan Bongino covered the story on his podcast as well.
  — Marshall Cohen, CNN, 17 June 2021
• McConnell, no doubt, expected the party -- in the wake of the trauma of January 6 -- to begin to move away from the man who had served as the chief provocateur that day.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
• Two young white men will play the role of Milo Yiannopoulos-esque troll-provocateurs thirsting for fame.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 25 Sep. 2017
• Rodman, for much of the past decade, has been playing a stereotype of himself -- the brash, unpredictable provocateur.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 12 June 2018
• Instead, he’s played footsie with the idea that the riot might have been caused by federal provocateurs.
  — The Editors, National Review, 23 Aug. 2023
• With half-rim glasses and collared shirts, Trewhella looks and sounds more like a professor than a provocateur.
  — Phoebe Petrovic, Journal Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024