Sentence examples for prompting from high-quality English sources.

• In contrast, the power of spontaneity needs no such prompting.

• The last batch of Olympic tickets went on sale, prompting a near riot.

• New targeted restrictions began today, prompting protests over the weekend.

• At Gardere’s prompting, guests began to raise their hands and pledge donations.

• Smoke from the fire blanketed much of northern California for nearly two weeks, prompting health warnings.

• But North Korea said America’s demands were “gangsterish”, prompting fears that it was already back-pedalling on its commitment to disarm.

• Both diets, as well as the combination of the two, have been around for years, prompting a range of Mediterranean keto cookbooks and recipes.

• It announced the policy in September amid soaring electricity bills for consumers, prompting a backlash from utilities, which said investment would suffer.

Use prompting in a sentence.

• Hopefully, leaders will see the coronavirus as an important reckoning, prompting a reconsideration of broad emergency planning and national security preparedness.

• In 2016, a parent filed a complaint that their child worked at a Massachusetts Chipotle restaurant well past midnight, prompting the attorney general's investigation.

• Robert Inglis of South Carolina to "keep your government hands off my Medicare," prompting Inglis to explain that the voter's healthcare was already provided by the government.

• Protesters vowed to bring central London to a standstill during the rally on Tuesday, prompting the city’s police force to prepare what it called “a multifaceted security operation.”

• Fans of “Greenberg” would recognize Barber’s laugh; he is the man who, during Greenberg’s birthday dinner, claps as he laughs, prompting Greenberg to say to Ivan, his old friend, “Laughing already demonstrates appreciation.

• On Wednesday afternoon, four Republican senators said they were concerned the new benefits would be larger than some people’s wages, prompting employers to lay off workers and some employees to prefer staying home and collecting unemployment payments.

• Arlington National Cemetary's website noted that Butt's "health began to deteriorate in 1912 because of his attempts to remain neutral during the bitter personal quarrel" between Roosevelt and Taft, possibly prompting his decision to travel to Europe.

• The power outages have disrupted life across the state, with schools canceling classes, stores closing their doors, and drivers navigating streets without working traffic lights, angering residents and prompting the utility, PG&E, to defend its decision.

prompting sentence examples

• All the while, the Trump administration has not given a clear answer on the precise nature of the "imminent attack" it said was prevented by assassinating Soleimani, prompting uproar among Democrats in Congress and calls to limit the president's war powers.

• The President-elect’s team asked officials to name department employees who had worked on securing international climate deals and domestic efforts to cut carbon emissions, prompting fears of a "witch hunt" given Mr Trump's claims that global warming is a "hoax".

• Bloomberg News’ editor-in-chief has said the outlet will not investigate Bloomberg or any other Democratic presidential candidate but will continue to investigate the Trump administration, prompting allegations of a journalistic double standard from the president’s allies.

• A large portion of the public could see the benefits of higher frame rate straight away and were very impressed; others needed some prompting on where to look and eventually could appreciate the difference, while others couldn’t see the differences at all, even with lots of prompting, however, the latter were a much smaller minority, about 5% of the visitors.