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"prodding me" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English
It is typically used to describe someone or something poking or nudging a person in order to get their attention or encourage them to do something. Example: "My little sister kept prodding me to play with her, but I was too busy studying for my exam."
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But a writer friend, who had gone through The Process, kept prodding me.
"I have felt all along that sense of something provoking me or prodding me or drawing me in — from the time I pulled off the road," she said.
'Most people would say something bad about her,' this interviewer kept prodding me, and I said to him, 'Well, I'm not most people".' To say the least.
The editing was a real education, and I can still hear my editors prodding me to ask questions of myself and my characters.
I never did really understand why those Russian teachers in black were prodding me with their canes and talking to me in French.
My boyfriend keeps prodding me with his fork... Being on the receiving end of 1,000 complaints every week – and finding the energy to answer them – requires patience and compassion beyond most of us.
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John prodded me in the breast.
He prods me in the chest, hard.
The driver prodded me to climb out.
You might need to prod me a bit".
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