Sentence examples for prodding around from inspiring English sources

The sparring has not been anything nasty but just a finger under the rib, poking and prodding around.

Amid the debris in Rikuzentakata, a 62-year-old woman wearing trainers was prodding around for her 94-year-old aunt.

Is this the reason he filmed Charlotte Rampling's eye, in close-up, his finger prodding around it with a delicacy that's almost shockingly intrusive?

So with grateful thanks to Jazz On 3, which recorded the whole final night, here's a clip from that concert – with a pretty perky-sounding Mengelberg still irrepressibly trickling and prodding around Michael Moore's saxophone on a twisted but identifiable Herbie Nichols bebop classic.

4th over: South Africa 7-0 (Englead lead by six runs on first innings; Petersen 5, Smith 2) Huge appeal from Broad when he thinks he's got Petersen leg-before with the batsman prodding around the ball but he got an inside edge, as the replay confirmed.

To the uninitiated user, Peek's interface can appear enigmatic or even inscrutable at first glance — with a rack of icons swiping into view that look alien rather than immediately obvious, and a series of interface gestures required to navigate the app's functions, which don't immediately leap out as intuitive and absolutely do require a little poking and prodding around to get into the swing of.

Peppering the young women with questions without introducing himself, he picked and prodded around, invading their space.

Allegations first emerged from a whistleblower in China, who said government officials there were receiving lavish gifts from Avon employees who travelled with them, and while the company has prodded around for an internal investigation, it has found questionable practices far and wide, from Japan to India to Argentina.

As all readers of this space know, I'm certainly a proponent, but, as some readers of this space do not appear to see, I attempt to not only "cheerlead" this technology, but also to push and prod around the issues - obvious or otherwise - that might, at worst, be its undoing, but, in all cases, must be addressed.

During a recent treatment, she poked and prodded around my heart looking for bumps and blemishes just as she did with my face.

Ringling paraded animals, who had been whipped and prodded, around a ring in front of screaming people for a century and a half.