Sentence examples for elicit at from inspiring English sources

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To avoid this, your caption should elicit, at best, a mild chuckle.

Between 1991 and 1993, Boudreau had allegedly helped elicit at least five dubious confessions from suspects who were later acquitted.

If they did occur and were intentional, the incursions would have been likely to elicit, at the least, angry comments from Pakistani officials.

That line rarely fails to elicit at least a chuckle when it's quoted as a famous bit of twisted wisdom from Yogi Berra.

But when the remark comes from Dmitri O. Rogozin, Russia's bombastic ambassador to NATO, it tends to elicit at most a cringe.

Cross that regenerated line of the swearing ban and watch the mortality rates change – a fact that should elicit at least a "Bloody hell!" So how will the ban work?

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It has elicited at least initial interest from 19 more.

That news would once have elicited at least a slightly surprised response.

The horrendous allegations about Cosby elicited, at first, an insouciant shrug.

Spending that kind of money on an abbreviated dinner should have elicited at least a twinge of guilt.

Armed with a sweater vest and a handful of well-crafted benign violations, the only guffaws the fumbling professor elicited at Denver's Squire Lounge occurred when the m.c.

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