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Example sentences for: prod

How can you use “prod” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

At first, Zionist organizations used the holiday as an excuse to prod individuals to donate coins to the cause.
The Los Angeles Times leads with the Clinton administration's plan to send the Treasury Dept.'s international trade point man to Tokyo to prod the Japanese to stabilize the yen.
The networks and most stations refused to sell Seagram air time because they feared liquor ads would prod Congress into investigating the proliferation of beer ads on television.
But there was a greater prod to Southern memory: defeat.
When Hadley circulated a memorandum attempting to prod the deputies to reach agreement, McLaughlin sent it back with a handwritten comment on the cost-sharing:"we question whether it is advisable to make such an investment before the decision is taken on flying an armed Predator."