Example sentences for: prompts

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

  • NBC's tabloidy Dateline , already on four times a week, is called "as close to local TV news as anything the networks have yet come up with" (Richard Zoglin, Time ). Meanwhile, a highly praised PBS documentary about 60 Minutes producer Don Hewitt prompts critics to note that show's downfall as well.

  • A reader query prompts Today's Papers to wonder about last Sunday's obituaries for longtime Italian politician Amintore Fanfani.

  • 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.

  • She prompts the island's Princess Nausicaa to cajole her father into letting her drive a year's worth of dirty clothes all the way down to the water's edge in a big ox-drawn wagon, to spend the day with her maids washing and drying them on the beach, right where Athena knew she would find the shipwrecked Odysseus.

  • This last array prompts the question: how are names chosen for inclusion?


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