prodding
Example Sentences
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The next day, after more prodding by Amelia’s father, police received permission to search some parts of the house but found no sign of her.
From Los Angeles Times
What follows is less of a neighborly conversation than Nile prodding a potential victim for exploitable weaknesses.
From Salon
The negotiations continued to falter for the next several months as the Israeli leader resisted prodding from the White House.
She says she confronted Bietz and his daughter after she saw him leaning over the sea lion and prodding it with a knife.
From Los Angeles Times
After working for several years as a federal public defender, she decided to run for judge at the prodding of a mentor.
From Los Angeles Times
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