Sentence examples for started prodding from inspiring English sources

The other deputies got out and started prodding it to get back in the water.

There is a strong smell, especially when the flushers started prodding the fatbergs.

Quietly, they have started prodding the government to ensure that the $30 million or so they pay in taxes each year to a special Amazon development fund reaches the villages.

"I was on my own at the beginning of a lesson and I started prodding myself with a pair of scissors and I quite liked the sensation of it.

MTV producers, frantic, start prodding the group members to abandon their artisanal passions and revert to alcoholic bullying and sloppy hot-tubbing, but the cast members refuse.

He then pulls his phone from his pocket and starts prodding at the screen, a sign that he has better places to be.

It may just be that when workers begin to see how investment fees and administrative costs are ravaging their retirement savings, they'll start prodding the managers overseeing these plans to behave like the fiduciaries they are.

Hopefully the actions of these groups will influence action from advocacy organizations like MoveOn.org as well as attention from the blogosphere -- it's time that some of this country's most politically engaged public health activists and intellectuals start prodding our President to take leadership on a public health crisis of over one 1,000,000 innocent people.

If Bowie in Thin White Duke mode had sauntered onstage with the intro of Station to Station blaring moodily, then whipped out an e-cigarette and started frantically prodding it with a pen to make it work, I am fairly certain that iconic status would have been harder to come by.

I was conscious the whole time, and when they opened up the knee they started really prodding around in it properly.

And finally, Mr. Obama could quickly start bullying, prodding and cajoling Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table for comprehensive peace talks.