How To Use Prodding In A Sentence
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With a lot of prodding and poking and pushing and cajoling, it set off with a spasmodic jerk.
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The government is prodding banks to clean up bad loans so they are able to compete with foreign rivals.
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Johnny awoke to those words the next morning and opened his eyes to see Tom standing over him, already dressed and dangerous-looking, prodding the hound pup with the toe of his boot.
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You'd think they couldn't ruin a steak, surely there's a rubicund, porky chef, with a hat, prodding and turning steaks over a hot griddle.
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A little gentle prodding may be necessary at this stage.
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That night I head to the pulsing potamic souq, more unruly and wanton than the counterpart in Cairo, where the shopkeepers hustle visitors like dice, shaking and prodding until the right answer rolls.
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He put on his helmet and cupped his hand around the earhole, stoking and prodding the crowd even more.
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Using indigenous and interesting sounds we are constantly prodding at the boundaries of rock and roll.
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Of course, with a little prodding they enjoy their afternoon siesta.
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That is their prime motivation in prodding the US into a resumption of a deal.
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I knew that I was prodding him deeply and severely, thrusting the iron into his soul with as little compunction as a Mexican _charo_ exerts when he "cinches" a heavily burdened _burro_.
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Nobody was in a hurry and none was seen prodding the organisers to get on with the item.
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Gemini awoke the next morning, not to her father prodding her in the side, but to a warm breeze sifting in through her window and the hot summer sun falling across her face.
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She grimaced and swept up her hair in a messy bun with one hand, whilst prodding me on the back with the other hand.
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He began circumspectly, prodding tentatively at the few balls he faced.
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Scene after scene I kept imagining some off-screen trainer with a grub in his hand, prodding Link to do his bidding.
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Oh yes, Google, which everyone envies, is prodding all this on to keep its rivals in a state of confusion.
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Following some gentle prodding from Simon, I've added another section to the sidebar.
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She said a shadow box is such a personal gift that people need some prodding to get them thinking about what they can do for a special person.
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In fact she almost expected them to accuse her of causing the conscience-prodding dip into their pockets.
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She is a fairly good worker, but she needs prodding occasionally.
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At the same time, I'm prodding the actors and encouraging them to dig down inside themselves.
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Pierre used a short piece of woodchip to touch a flashing light within two seconds of picking it up; while Corbeau was seen prodding a metal toad after 10 seconds; and a rubber spider after 35 seconds.
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With strong easterly winds, peat fires have wreaked havoc on Moscow this summer, prodding officials to revive an unfulfilled plan drafted after the 2002 fires to reflood the peat mines.
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When the spiders respond to the prodding, the engrossed first graders recoil in elaborate and animated ways.
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After much prodding and some fairly heated exchanges, the support rep, whom I will not name, told me there was a big fire in one of the major data centers in the east coast that feeds adcenter ads, all servers were burned and data destroyed.
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The answer, I found, was meths, and with some judicious prodding with a meths-impregnated brush, I soon had an amorphous bunch of coils on the carpet.
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Cathy was prodding at a boiled egg.
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There's so much more power in decreeing that the awful detours you may have endured served their purpose of prodding you into the place you now reside, without giving energy to them.
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His mind turned briefly inward, prodding gently at its privacy shield.
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Presiding over the debate, gently — too gently? — prodding the communion toward acceptance of gay clergy, is Rowan Williams, the brilliant and beleaguered archbishop of Canterbury.
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They were dreadful sleepers, but I'm sure that was because I was prodding and poking them all the time!
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After much prodding, he related that he had been taking a combination of penicillin and sulfa antibiotics, which he had purchased without a prescription ‘in the fish medication aisle’ of a local pet store.
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Whatever Don's initial reluctance, he acquiesces to Winston's prodding because he is, actually, looking for something, even if he doesn't know what that something is.
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Hoo!" shouted the black, leaping from the ground, and then bursting out with a strange noise something between a rapid repetition of the word wallah and the gobbling of a turkey-cock; and then seeing that the boys laughed he repeated the performance, waved his clumsy spear over his head, and made a dash at the bullocks, prodding them in the ribs, administering a poke or two to the horses, and sending them off at a gallop toward the port.
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But despite more prodding from them, Eve remained silent on the subject.
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'Don't go to sleep,' she said, prodding me in the ribs.
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Or how about the faint chirp prodding you to invent an ugly doll with a hankering for tickles?
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He's a bright kid, but he needs prodding.
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Not created in some lab with a bunch of doctors and scientists poking and prodding them with instruments.
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Sure enough, an hour later he appeared and duly started taking the machine apart and prodding it with a multimeter.
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Sure enough, an hour later he appeared and duly started taking the machine apart and prodding it with a multimeter.
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They pulled and heaved under the prodding and loud yelling of the teamster who tried to coordinate them.
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Their hands - podgy, thin, freckled or pale - touched everything, prodding, caressing, tickling, squeezing.
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In fact she almost expected them to accuse her of causing the conscience-prodding dip into their pockets.
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Doctors have been prodding and probing women for centuries to help produce healthy babies.
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The girl was calmly prodding a brazier of hot coals with an iron stick.
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When was the last time you saw a giraffe or a rhino proudly prodding a charred chunk of wildebeest round a barbeque?
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Or how about the faint chirp prodding you to invent an ugly doll with a hankering for tickles?
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A little gentle prodding may be necessary at this stage.
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To skeptical critics this is warning sign: the memories are confabulations suggested by prodding, suggestive therapy.
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We were in the air about 45 minutes when I felt a poke in the ribs and turned to find my row-mate prodding me with his rolled-up reading material.
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Or how about the faint chirp prodding you to invent an ugly doll with a hankering for tickles?
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the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves
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Or how about the faint chirp prodding you to invent an ugly doll with a hankering for tickles?
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Also keep in mind that, just as prodding doctors to limit choices and treatments may be one bad side effect of capitated systems, prodding doctors to provide excessive, wasteful and potentially risky care is a bad side effect of fee-for-service payment.
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Anton murmured, prodding with his toecap at my Rexine night-bag.
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Armed with an old-fashioned Soviet box camera, and a sturdy shovel, Romanenko spent several days last week prodding the tundra.
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With some prodding, the butcher explained that hogget is meat from a sheep that is older than a lamb and younger than the animals that make mutton.
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But lately it was as if he were unable to get a clear signal, and as they tangoed around the hot tub, Ben could not tell if she was poking fun or prodding for answers.
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The bird in the tree above them, who had been silent while the cartwright was prodding the wagon, burst into song, and she looked up and smiled at it.
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Prodding the ground with his javelin he walked across the floor until he heard a the dull sound of steel on wood.
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Seats all cascaded in a waterfall towards the pit at the bottom where a single wizen man stood with a rod, prodding at one of the black slates mounted on the vast black wall of the room.
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The shavetail saluted crisply and started prodding the crowd into a semblance of order.
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So far, on-air replies to prodding by radio and television hosts have cast the candidate in an unfavourable light.
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She is a fairly good worker, but she needs prodding occasionally.
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Started in Portland in 1999, their self-titled debut was incapable of prodding you into these visions, these half-lucid garbles of thought and imagination.
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With some prodding, the butcher explained that hogget is meat from a sheep that is older than a lamb and younger than the animals that ...
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After much prodding, he related that he had been taking a combination of penicillin and sulfa antibiotics, which he had purchased without a prescription ‘in the fish medication aisle’ of a local pet store.
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The popular view of our universities is poisonous: peopled by idle, ivory tower academics who are careless of their students and who only with the greatest of prodding can be induced both to teach and furnish the ideas that industry can commercialise and so drive the economy forward.
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A little gentle prodding may be necessary at this stage.
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'Don't go to sleep,' she said, prodding me in the ribs.
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On the whole, I feel that it is better to be a little bit too dilatory than too hurried in responding to political proddings of this kind.
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But ordinary people might tune politics out, so they just can't resist prodding and stimulating us with those symbolic things.
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There was a niggling in the back of her mind, perhaps her subconscious prodding at her, trying to get her attention.
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They stood there naked and shivering, huddled together as a soldier walked round them, prodding them with a baton.
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You'd think they couldn't ruin a steak, surely there's a rubicund, porky chef, with a hat, prodding and turning steaks over a hot griddle.
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He sat back for a moment, thinking, prodding with his mind towards any intention the man might have.
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Landon had several men poking and prodding his bare chest as he sat on the bed table in nothing but his breezers.
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He's joined on a tantalising double bill by Jamie xx who, during the course of XOYO's lifetime, has gone from being the mussy-haired kid prodding the drum machine at the back of the xx to becoming one of the country's most in-demand remixers and DJs, well-versed in everything from bashment to disco.
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