Sentence examples for prodding with from inspiring English sources

There's a strand of hair stuck between her two front teeth that she can't stop prodding with her tongue.

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

The innocence of the creatures that we encountered -- a congregation of handsome black vultures prodding with beaks and claws at a deer's foreleg; a feral pig and her offspring rocketing through the undergrowth -- was rejuvenating.

But the scene soon altered, for the younger heifers, gambolling and prodding with their horns, were away to the hedge shelter, sniffing and tossing the hay fodder thrown there in heaps for them.

Of the time that went by until he came back, I remember only the incessant barking of the dog, the smell of death, and the figure of the widow prodding with her child's shovel among the corpses, shouting at us to carry on, because the French Woman had not yet been found.

Westwood does well enough to get up and down from the front for his par; he stays at -2. Meanwhile Stenson can't save his par on the opening hole: he'd found the green with a marvellous escape from the rough, but followed it up with a three putt, racing a 20-footer three feet past, then prodding with great uncertainty at the one coming back.

This weapon we were being prodded with.

Whole steamed fish was beautiful and flaky when prodded with chopsticks.

During interrogations, he said, he had been pistol-whipped, prodded with electric batons and lanced with bamboo sticks.

If they miss, they are inert: unlike old-style weapons, they won't go off when prodded with a stick.

At that moment it might have behooved the interviewer to prod with a gentle question like: "Really?