Sentence examples for elicit an answer from inspiring English sources

The licking of a lip, the mouthing of some consonants to elicit an answer?

Questions like, "Was the Taliban leader's Chevrolet hit by bombs?" will not elicit an answer from him.

The burden is on the questioner to elicit an answer from the witnesses with more precise questioning, the ruling said.

So, after we greet, I ask a question that feels a bit like an experiment, and unlikely to elicit an answer.

So much so, senior Administration officials said, that on the make-or-break night of the Camp David summit meeting in July, it was Mr. Tenet whom President Clinton sent to elicit an answer from Mr. Arafat on the peace proposal.

The colloquial question, "What is the force of those words?" is often used to elicit an answer.

He can sometimes strain one's attention: one question during an interview elicited an answer 1,477 words long.

Equally, this is a manager talking in what he thinks is an off-the-record environment, possibly half-cut, with an undercover journalist chucking in a question he knows may elicit an unguarded answer.

The result is effectively a "push poll" – questions designed to elicit a particular answer, and thus allow the Conservatives to claim public support.

Colbert did one gentle ambush, which involved a staged interaction with his own brother, designed to elicit a genuine answer from Jeb: Could he name a policy difference between himself and his brother George?

Asking a person with an eating disorder why they are behaving like that is not going to elicit a sensible answer, any more than asking an alcoholic why he or she drinks.