Sentence examples for elicited knowing from inspiring English sources

A honking overhead elicited knowing glances, as if the obvious barely merited comment.

The question elicited knowing chuckles from a bar full of gamers familiar with his penchant for writing oddball zingers.

He began with a joke that elicited knowing guffaws: "A conservative, a liberal, and a moderate walk into a bar.

His pump fakes sent Knicks defenders needlessly airborne, and his 3-pointers elicited knowing groans from the crowd.

"Show me a tax return," he said in mock dialogue, and drawled in response, "Well, I lost it," which elicited knowing laughs.

He greeted members by name, and he elicited knowing laughs from the audience when he playfully pleaded with the executives to repatriate overseas profits back to the United States.

"We came to America for Martin Luther King's dream," Mr. Nyarko said, eliciting knowing laughter from the others in the room.

In truth "Shanghai Moon" begins a bit shakily, with an easy if jovial vulgarity that brings to mind basement drag shows of an earlier era, when just to say the word pansy was to elicit knowing giggles.

This joke often elicits knowing chuckles from Ph.D. scientists--but it should elicit disquiet.

In Working Girl, the suburban secretaries' "big hair" was just large enough to elicit knowing snickers while successfully illustrating corporate hierarchies.

Its symptoms include a preference for garish clothing that bears the surnames of other people, a habit of shouting in pronounced noo-yawk accents at close quarters and a penchant for baseball trivia that elicits knowing nods from everybody but you.