Example sentences for: prompts

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

  • An entirely innocent passage from Henry James (reprinted for us to judge for ourselves) prompts this from Sedgwick: "[The text] shows how in James a greater self-knowledge and a greater acceptance and specificity of homosexual desire transform this half-conscious enforcing rhetoric of anality, numbness, and silence into a much richer, pregnant address to James's male muse, an invocation to fisting-as-écriture."

  • A new biography prompts a round of comparisons between the Standard Oil magnate (1839-1937) and Microsoft's CEO, Bill Gates--both exploit(ed) labor and use(d) unfair tactics to dominate new industries.

  • This, I am learning, is standard operating procedure across whole industries: I've heard variations of "the customer didn't understand our phone prompts" three times already, leading me to the conclusion that there's a real problem out there with deliberately obfuscatory phone prompts.

  • In animals, inclusion of mtDNA evidence in biogeographic and systematic analyses often reveals unexpected diversity or discordance with morphology, which then prompts re-evaluation of morphological and ecological characteristics and, if warranted, taxonomic revision.

  • Both stories mention that progestin also reduces the risk of uterine cancer, which prompts a suggestion: It would be helpful if the papers would get in the habit of accompanying stories about the particular potential cancer risk of a given substance with a graphic summarizing all its known cancer plusses and minuses.


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