Sentence examples for elicits an answer from inspiring English sources

His first question is "What is the key part of the goal for your job?" and naturally that elicits an answer that is basically, "You know, do a good job and stuff".

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.

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

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.

Instead of trying to laboriously elicit an answer from Google or another search engine on their smartphone, users can get Amen to quickly serve up a list of places to go.

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

While an ordinary question seeks information or an answer from the hearer, a rhetorical question does not expect 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.