Sentence examples for elicited an answer from inspiring English sources
He can sometimes strain one's attention: one question during an interview elicited an answer 1,477 words long.
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.
While an ordinary question seeks information or an answer from the hearer, a rhetorical question does not expect to elicit an answer.
Recently, the name Phil Jackson might elicit an answer twice that long, some of it funny and much of it less than flattering.
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.
A Death Commission carried out mock trials behind closed doors, interrogating prisoners about their associations, affiliations, and allegiances with a series of questions designed to elicit an answer that assured the death sentence.
After email failed to elicit an answer, he looked up the CEO's Twitter account and tried there.
