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Example sentences for: prodded

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faulted Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for failing to stop the bomber and, prodded by outraged Israeli hawks, began stalling the agreement to death.
But Einstein wins the triathlon because in addition to acing the science test, he prodded Roosevelt to build the bomb (10 points for defeating totalitarianism), fled Germany and immigrated to the United States (five more points for defeating totalitarianism and five for liberation and justice), and preached pacifism and praised Gandhi (10 more points for liberation and justice).
Its answer: He's bullied and prodded the Legislature to cut taxes and spending.
On Springer's show, men learn their girlfriends are actually boys; wives learn their husbands are sleeping with their sisters or ex-wives or both; women learn that their 13-year-old daughters are strippers or their 60-year-old mothers are whores; fat people are poked and prodded and berated.
Shortly after McCain prodded the FCC a second time, the agency approved the acquisition, which the (somewhat liberal) editorial page of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called "long overdue."