Sentence examples for try to elicit from inspiring English sources

"We try to elicit offers".

Naturally, I remonstrate and, when feeling sunnily optimistic, even try to elicit some empathy.

I wondered, of course, if the man would try to elicit a blow job.

Since the scary holiday is a good excuse for television programmers to try to elicit fear, two ancestors of "Vampire Bats" are also being shown this week.

He doesn't try to elicit sympathy for his character, only to present him as a victim of war; there are probably tens of thousands like him.

It is a system that many teachers use to reward good behavior or, more often in Ms. Moffett's case, to try to elicit it.

We're just trying to elicit some kind of response".

I was trying to elicit a factual response.

Still, she is not trying to elicit tears.

But coziness seemed to be what Sanders was trying to elicit next.

His lawyer, Roland Thau, gamely pushed on, trying to elicit some useful testimony.