How to Use prod in a Sentence

prod

1 of 2 verb

• She prodded him in the ribs to get his attention.
• She was prodded into joining the team.
• But don’t poke or prod too deeply.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2025
• But again, Seeds is not out to prod.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2026
• Kate says when Laurie prods her to speak her mind.
  — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Jan. 2026
• The city has played a role in prodding investment with land sales and grants.
  — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2026
• Some sob when prodded by a fork, others are straight up devoured.
  — Joe Wilkins Published Mar 12, Futurism, 12 Mar. 2026
• They were pinched, prodded, cut, shocked, pierced with needles, struck with canes, and burned with acid.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
• For years, lawyers prodded at the rule on how buyers’ and sellers’ agents share fees.
  — Laura Kusisto, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2023
• What else could make Redzepi scream at, punch, and prod his employees with kitchen tools?
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Mar. 2026
• Many bosses have longed for some leverage to prod more workers back to the office.
  — Matthew Boyle, Fortune, 4 June 2022
• To some degree, all grand city museums prod us to be our better selves.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2026
• Roberts beelined to him, cracking inside jokes to gently prod him out of his shell.
  — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026
• Call up a Marlie who has been playing well to prod his team a little further?
  — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025
• More often, monuments fail to achieve their goal of prodding us to reflect.
  — John Adams, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• My skin bounced back more readily after prodding at my post-treatment skin.
  — Essence, 12 Jan. 2024
• Then, the mosquito uses one stylet—the labrum—to prod around, seeking a blood vessel to pierce.
  — John Sass, Field & Stream, 11 Apr. 2023
• George and Martha proceed to taunt and prod each other in front of the unwitting young people.
  — Jessica Geltstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
• An experience like this prods a lot of reflection.
  — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 17 Nov. 2025
• Schirtzinger told the Tribune one of her attorneys had to prod the state agency to take action.
  — Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune, 1 Dec. 2022
• Leader after leader prodded the Bank of Japan to cut rates.
  — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
• But over the last decade, Davis’ group has refined a way to prod the glue around individual atoms.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2022
• But this is also a movie that, like a lot of conspiracy thrillers, prods you to look a little deeper at a few things.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2023
• In some cases, like my request for headache tips, bots end their messages with prodding follow-up questions.
  — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025
• Brilliant Corners woke me up and prodded me as a teenager to think outside of the music box.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 13 Oct. 2023
• Eleanor asked, annoyed at having to prod for the embarrassing info.
  — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• That could prod the Fed to react more aggressively by raising rates higher down the road.
  — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• The researchers also used a puff of air to prod the rats’ whiskers, then observed how the human neurons responded.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2022
• Trump believes exacting tariffs can be a useful tool in prodding friends and foes on the global stage to bend to his will.
  — Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2026
• Naked people are collared, bound, prodded, whipped, ridden like horses, roasted over spits.
  — Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025

prod

2 of 2 noun

• She gave him a sharp prod in the back.
• He picked up a stick and used it as a prod to get the donkey moving.
• She called me and gave me a prod about finishing the report.
• He needed a few prods to remember his lines.
• Don’t the judges just parade you around, then poke, prod and grope you?
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2025
• In response to my prod, the bot merely teeters.
  — James Vincent, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
• In response to my prod, the bot merely teeters.
  — James Vincent, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
• Who needs a gentle prod to put themselves 'out there' and trust their strengths?
  — Dr Margie Warrell, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• Flesh thick and tender, detaching from the shell with the slight prod of a spoon.
  — Hilary Cadigan, Bon Appétit, 18 Nov. 2019
• Amy Crighton, Meg Fozzard, prod.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
• Azadeh Moussavi, Kourosh Ataee, prod.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
• Luis Gutiérrez Arias, Zaina Bseiso, prod.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
• But the procedures, the protocols, the check-ins, the pokes, the prods—these are all new things.
  — Cat Jaffee, Outside Online, 21 Feb. 2023
• At best, third parties serve as prods to force the major parties to adjust their agenda.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 30 Jan. 2018
• Plus, some retailers will even email you a discount code as an extra prod to make the purchase.
  — Erica Sweeney, SELF, 25 Oct. 2021
• Shara felt something behind her—more substantial than a breeze, less forceful than a prod.
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• After Lauren moved away, the phrase was a prod to compel her to come back at least once every year.
  — Greg Borowski, jsonline.com, 20 Dec. 2019
• On occasion, a little prod is needed when there seems to be a project that’s hitting a delay.
  — Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Nov. 2021
• Yet in many cases, the sonic prod of choice appears to be classical music.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
• Yimit Ramírez, Tony Alonso, prod.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
• Tenji Takakura, Sansan Liu, prod.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
• The bottom line is, there needs to be lots more prod production, and that's most available to the strongest countries.
  — CBS News, 26 June 2022
• The entire package boosts the driver's confidence with every turn of the wheel and prod of the pedals.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 17 Jan. 2023
• The groups claim workers use electric prods and sharp sticks to agitate the bulls before releasing them for the race.
  — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 6 July 2018
• The service, which costs individuals $75 a year, prods users to do more.
  — Paul Sullivan, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
• During the event, caught on film, a living dolphin circles and prods a smaller dead female, while emitting clicks.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 June 2018
• Their haste suggested that all the French needed to get the vaccine was a powerful prod of a kind not seen up to now.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2021
• In each of the videos, Kim prods and pokes, trying to coerce each sister into flattering words about her weight.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 3 Aug. 2018
• Chen Zhiqiang, a young man giving a chunk of pork a discerning prod, concedes that some children claim to dislike meat.
  — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
• Without such microbial priming, the drugs may only offer a futile prod.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 Nov. 2017