prodding's Usage Examples:

By 1930, Cadbury's was selling half-length Flake specifically for prodding into vanilla soft serve ice cream in a cone ("99 Flakes") which was served.

mechanisms, including feeding them meat and glass, blowing on them and prodding them with hair.

Continued insistent prodding from his friends eventually results in one of his greatest masterpieces.

Despite her prodding, the showman known as The Kid has no ambitions about joining the rackets.

the swagger stick — useless as a support and just used for gesturing and prodding.

of interviewing was to allow his subjects to reminisce freely, rarely prodding or probing them on anything.

and states possessing weapons of mass destruction—that is, for instance, prodding terrorist cells into action and exposing themselves to "quick-response".

The image of prodding the reluctant or lazy creature made this a useful metaphor for sharp urging.

(five-to-one in Rocky II) and views Creed with respect, pointedly refusing the prodding of a reporter to trash-talk against Creed (although it is implied that.

stated that the fatal shot occurred when Adamucci, angered at Mayberry prodding him toward the office and safe, pushed at Mayberry's arm, causing the pistol.

the person braces themselves in a defensive pose against the other wands prodding in his direction.

mere three months after Richard's death and Jordan, probably with papal prodding, began fomenting revolt in the Guiscard's lands.

With Amelia's prodding, Walter professed his love, and when Evelyn confessed her "sins," Walter.

Through interruptions and prodding, the interrogator reveals that the spy was captured in the process of infiltrating.

Upon the prodding of his mother and her maid, he takes his sister's dancing teacher, the.

an inner voice that he refers to as "The Dark Passenger", which keeps prodding Dexter to satisfy his homicidal urges on a regular basis.

"They had no license for selling liquor, but there was no law yet against prodding some of the new veshches which they used to put into the old moloko, so.

With prodding from Henry Clay and the Bank's major stockholders, Biddle engineered a.

Synonyms:

encouragement; spur; urging; prod; goading; goad; spurring;

Antonyms:

despair; disapproval; pull; discourage; discouragement;