Sentence examples for eliciting something from inspiring English sources

"I used to hear you at Bradley's," he told Mr. Barron, referring to the dearly missed Greenwich Village piano haunt, and eliciting something like a collective sigh in the room.

One, a French import named Nadiya De La Vega, would run out a really impressive winner of her first steeplechase; another, Burton Port, would be galloped in the hope of eliciting something of the sparkle he so modestly conceals at home.

The first query elicited something near unanimity.

She elicits something like awe in young swimmers.

When Sanders mentioned inequality, the crowd cried out their disapproval, though mention of gentrification elicited something less than a roar.

The release last month of a new math curriculum for New York City schools by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has elicited something just short of vituperation.

But then there's "Blue Car," a Greg Brown tune in blues form, which elicits something you'd almost hesitate to call a performance.

After the financial system led the world into recession, the City of London and its peers now elicit something more like a love-hate — or hate-love — relationship.

"When Chuck approaches a hearing, he wants to elicit something, leave a mark, unearth something that the A.P. will file a story on," a Schumer staffer from this era told me.

The draw for the Thursday-Friday rounds had just been released and two wily Fleet Streeters, noting that Anthony Kim would be playing with McIlroy, were trying to elicit something juicy and headline-worthy.

Later in the day, Gregory Parkinson, who showed a small collection on mannequins at the Linda Dresner boutique on Park Avenue, left one with a glimmer of hope for fashion's ability to elicit something close to emotion.