Sentence examples for prodding to get from inspiring English sources

All his life, Win had been the kind of studious, serious kid who had his nose in a book, who studied without prodding to get good grades, who worried enough on his own about doing well that his parents never had to.

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

The crowd at King's Theatre, in Brooklyn, took some prodding to get on its feet.

It did not take any prodding to get Leiter to admit as much.

IT takes no prodding to get Cornelius D. Murray to talk about gambling.

But even so, it is taking a little prodding to get fans back into those teal and purple seats.

To be awarded the overall prize was dreamlike - I had to be prodded to get out of my chair as I was so taken aback.

If the White House cannot be prodded to get a fairer job from the C.I.A., the committee should ask Senate approval to present a properly revealing version of the report directly to the public.

Or that they were prodded to get tough after some digging by my colleagues Dan Weikel and Bettina Boxall on commissioners' private, unreported meetings with developers and pressure on the staff to reconsider its assessment that much of the oil field was an environmentally sensitive habitat.

Or that they were prodded to get tough after some digging by my colleagues Dan Weikel and Bettina Boxall on commissioners' private, unreported meetings with developers and pressure on the staff to reconsider its assessment that much of the oil field was an environmentally sensitive habitat.

He said guards often jolted inmates with electric cattle prods to get them to renounce Falun Gong.