Sentence examples for lots of prodding from inspiring English sources

Mumble's untimely death affected the author deeply: it took 20 years (and lots of prodding) before he dug out his notebooks and wrote this unusual book.

Even with heavy use, with hundreds of notifications, sleep tracking and lots of prodding and playing, the Time lasted 72 hours on a single charge.

It doesn't take a lot of prodding for me to make silly noises.

At Madangsui this can mean an almost manic attention to the progress of each piece of protein, a lot of prodding with the tongs.

Most writers start out just wanting to be writers, and it takes a lot of prodding from a publisher to get them to embrace digital media and throw themselves into publicity.

If we desired people who were likely to make creative advances, we would look for youngsters — be they 4 or 14 — who have a passionate interest that they pursue without a lot of prodding.

My friends didn't address the data, and it took a lot of prodding to get them to view this as a teachable moment.

And after a great deal of prodding Erdogan agreed to an Obama-orchestrated rapprochement with Israel.

Two years and a lot of prodding later, the I.R.S. sent the group's leaders a series of questions and requests almost identical to the ones it was sending to Tea Party groups at the time.

Sometimes, politicians give up the money without a lot of prodding, as did Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who has refunded at least $850,000 since he quit the Republican Party last year to become a Democrat.

His first car, the Chevy, belonged to his grandmother and was stored in her barn in the Catskills until it was given to Mr. Shiller in 1967, "not without a lot of prodding".