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How To Use prompting In A Sentence

• Uday's a handful, living out some Baathist-inflected fantasia on De Palma's Scarface, shooting off guns indoors, plucking schoolgirls off the streets and raping them, exercising Caligulan droit du seigneur over a war hero's new bride, prompting her suicide, and mutilating and disembowelling his own dad's food-taster at a banquet to honour Mrs Hosni Mubarak par-TAY! The Devil's Double and more movies on the megalomaniacal
• It also tires the body out, prompting it to sleep more soundly. Times, Sunday Times
• The Philippines’ most active volcano erupted again Monday, spewing ash and molten lava into the air, prompting volcanologists to warn of more violent eruptions in coming days.
• Unable to contain their joy, boys of Punjab broke into a song prompting their friends to do a jig.
• A simple single-storey pavilion is enclosed by folded concertina walls and roof, prompting irresistible comparisons with origami.
• With little prompting from the teacher, the students raised and vigorously pursued the following questions.
• ‘Say goodbye’ I say as I squeeze their mittened hands as a way of prompting.
• There were some figures in the West who needed little prompting from the Russians to conclude that all was not as it seemed. Times, Sunday Times
• The size of this latest mimivirus is unprecedented, prompting researchers to name it a mamavirus. ���Sputnik��� Virus Can Attack Others, But Is it Alive?
• One died presumably to satisfy some ideological or religious prompting or to get revenge, and the other while trying, somehow, simply to get by.