How to use prod in a sentence

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• Prodding gently I realised I had just cracked or broken one or more ribs.2013, Crispin Latymer, Where the Ocean Meets the Sky, page 48. From the entry nav
• Since being discovered, Weird Twitter has been poked, prodded, analyzed and made merciless fun of.2013 November 12, Samantha Bares, “We should appreciate 'Weird Twitter'”, in The Daily Reveille, Louisiana State University, page 9. From the entry Weird Twitter
• It started a few months ago when this megalogue finally prodded me into belated action.2009 September 9, Madeleine Bunting, “My battle to cut carbon: a baffling, frustrating path to a more honest life”, in Guardian. From the entry megalogue
• They may push and prod and challenge their kohai to succeed and improve.2006, Dave Lowry, In the Dojo: A Guide to the Rituals and Etiquette of the Japanese Martial Arts, Weatherhill, →ISBN, page 173. From the entry sempai
• Sheets are on the floor, an electrician is prodding a light fitting, an unseen hammerer hammers.2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 120. From the entry hammerer
• I imagine her prodding my flab and snaping, "There's nothing there — get rid of that!"2001, Joan Raphael-Leff, Pregnancy: The Inside Story, Karnac Books, page 22. From the entry snape
• What do you use for discipline, a cattle prod or a cat-o-nine?”1996, Glenda Sanders, A Human Touch, page 169. From the entry cat-o-nine
• Gibson called me in part because she knew I like to provoke, tickle, and prod.1989, Helping Learners Learn at a Distance: Fifth Annual Conference on Teaching at a Distance, Madison, Wisconsin, August 8-10, 1989, The…. From the entry Minnesota nice
• Florin—a gentle prod with his foot and a lump of sugar.1930, Evelyn Waugh, chapter V, in Vile Bodies, New York: Back Bay Books, published 1999. From the entry cordiality
• Down in the corral, by much prodding and pulling, a bull was dragged into the shute.1922, Ross Santee, “The Payson Rodeo”, in The Century, volume 104, page 43. From the entry bull riding
• I'm on the prod, not looking to settle down.2012, Jonas Ward, Buchanan on the Prod, →ISBN. From the entry on the prod
• She prodded at the contents anxiously with a wooden spoon, and a chunk of vegetable bobbed gently in the stew.2012, Chris Smyth, Dinner at Mine. From the entry auberginey
• Hayleigh prodded her food with her knife.2011, Rob Grant, Fat. From the entry leavable
• We’ll have to prod our snoozing pewmates when to sit and stand; they’ll have to rein in their zealots.2007 July 29, Lawrence Downes, “The Pope Reopens a Portal to Eternity, via the 1950s”, in New York Times. From the entry pewmate
• While gossiping and exchanging news, the mevrouwen are also poking, prodding, sniffing, scrutinising; weighing up options and recipes.2005, The Spectator, page 44. From the entry mevrouw
• When all spectators are well out of any possible danger, the plugs are fired with a prod from an iron pole.2003, Howard Peach, Curious Tales of Old North Yorkshire. From the entry stiddy
• The ball was sent rolling towards the Millwall goal as if prodded by an 88-year-old in carpet slippers.1999, Mark Hodkinson, Blue Moon: Down Among the Dead Men with Manchester City, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry pea roller
• But in the back o' his head the devil would prod an' the cankery cravin ' would eat deeper.1955, Delight Youngs, The Gladesman, page 216. From the entry cankery
• The piece moves in alluring spans of swirling figures, jagged lines and pointillistic outbursts, often prodded forward by ostinatos in the perky piano.2009 January 26, Anthony Tommasini, “Pricking Up the Ears to Listen for Echoes of California”, in New York Times. From the entry ostinato
• With only a little prodding, the blond model seemed to find the black stud's happy button as I heard Ty let out a low moan.2003 February 4, ukhne054-ukgr [username], “ST:"Underwear Models" (MM, oral,anal,interracial,voyeur)”, in alt.sex.stories.gay.moderated…. From the entry happy button
• This final prod from the press has brought us precisely to the biting point, and we are really much obliged to the prodder.1912 April, Charles A.L. Reed, “The Farce of Medical Ethics”, in Pearson's Magazine, volume 27, number 4, page 466. From the entry biting point
• Now, if you accidentally run terraform destroy against prod, and it also takes the data with it, you’ve done more than just flipped the boxes off.2018 December, Adam K. Dean, “Git, Configuration Management, and Infrastructure as Code”, in Linux Administration Cookbook: Insightful…. From the entry Avada Kedavra
• In New Jersey’s smallest municipalities, whose state aid has been slashed in an attempt to prod them into consolidating with neighboring communities, some residents called the budget cuts antirural.2008 February 28, David Kocieniewski, “New Jersey Braces for Cuts Sought by the Governor”, in New York Times. From the entry antirural
• The paddles were enormously versatile, serving as radio-antenna masts, shovels, ice prods, snow knives, and potential argument settlers—whoever had one in his hand at the time would win.1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 592. From the entry versatile
• The ten-dollar bill was for eating money and the prod pole to be used when the train stopped for water in getting "downers" back on their feet.1964, John Hendrix, If I Can Do It Horseback: A Cow-Country Sketchbook, page 40. From the entry downer
• The Venetian captain, prodding among the butts and bales of the cargo, had discovered a stowaway--a fat, sandy-haired man in worn leather, snoring bibulously among the barrels.1939, Robert E. Howard, Gates of Empire. From the entry bibulously
• She hated the jangling of the hall telephone, the scurrying to answer, the prodding of whichever bell button would summon the tenant asked for by the caller.1921, B. M. Bower, chapter 2, in Sawtooth Ranch, London: Methuen. From the entry bell button
• Sam prodded the beast and yelled at him; donkey boys punched the animal with their fingers to stir him up, but still the animal refused to move.1911, Frank Gee Patchin, The Battleship Boys in Foreign Service, page 191. From the entry donkey boy
• Properly top-hatted and shawled, men and women of Britain’s upper crust gawked at, prodded and squeezed these so-called human freaks, amusing themselves with the deformities that were paraded before them.2007 January 14, Caroline Elkins, “A Life Exposed”, in New York Times. From the entry shawled
• We still feel a kudo for one of us is a kudo for the group, as we have nurtured, edited, and prodded each other for much of our writing careers.2004, Suzanne Paola, Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction, →ISBN, page 162. From the entry kudo
• Occasionally they strayed through the perimeter electronics, too, and Brown and his people had to track them down and chase them away with prods they'd jerry-rigged from tinglers and pipes.1991, Cynthia Felice, Khan's Persuasion, →ISBN, page 149. From the entry tingler

Meaning of prod

1. verb To poke, to push, to touch.
2. verb To encourage, to prompt.
3. verb To prick with a goad.

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Questions about prod in a sentence

How do you use prod in a sentence?

Prod is used as a verb and noun. For example: “"It's your turn," she reminded me, giving me a prod on the shoulder.”

What is a short sentence with prod?

“Check our BBS for the latest prods.”

What does prod mean?

Prod means to poke, to push, to touch.