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Example sentences for: prodded

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As he pushed and prodded, wheedled and connived, the crusade became more personal.
Participants are invited--heck, encouraged; prodded even--to submit the title of a much-needed but as yet unwritten autobiography of any national political figure lacking this essential election-year tool.
Diaz then says that the Food and Drug Administration wants to impose "strict limits on the daily dosage" of ephedrine, the key ingredient in Metabolife, though he concedes (as Ellis prodded him to do in the unedited interview transcript) that "another government agency" (he means the Government Accounting Office) has criticized the FDA's scientific findings.
Several weeks later, CIA officers in Kuala Lumpur prodded colleagues in Bangkok for additional information regarding the three travelers.
Dechorionated embryos can swim clumsily when prodded.