Poke with a finger

Usage examples of prod.

He prodded the jumble of letters, copied out the text several times on a separate sheet, anagrammatizing the words at different junctions to form new scrambles, buttressing himself from thoughts of the past.

A curious appendicular finger glowed crimson amid the dour browns and greens of the earth, prodding out from the bottom of the main land mass.

He and the Ballenger brothers have gone several rounds over cattle prods and feed additives.

Hand prodded doubtfully at the contents of the bento tray with his chopsticks.

Big Screen was like an electroshock cattle prod hammered down the earthquake faults of human identity which ripple and shudder at magnitude ten and slip and slide and pulverize and resettle into new and rarely improved and NEVER stable identities and wait for the next inevitable twitch and shudder that will send reality sprawling once again like pieces of ice flying around a high-speed blender and create a new and even more unstable formation and reinforce the creeping paranoia that has flooded the dazed soul that WAS you but has become something else, something different THAT was what FILM could do.

They raced across the lawn and the Japanese were momentarily frozen as the birthday guests reached the fence and banged their brooms and brollies against the railings, the occasional implement poking through to prod a startled protester.

In Longsaddle, where prejudice was secondary to the fanatical curiosity of the unsinkable Harpells, he had been placed on display like some mutated farm animal, mentally poked and prodded.

They left the body to one side, giving him a quick macho kick and a prod.

Gaucho said menacingly, prodding Signor Mantissa in the ribs with the corkscrew.

They prodded one another and laughed as Cashel walked by with Mellie back in her usual spot on his shoulder.

I could even wonder what rabbits had to do with anything, Merv jumped from his chair as if Cherry had rammed an electric cattle prod to his man-bits, and ran past us out of the stinking office.

Gradually, the claws on my sash, the milkweed pods, everything else prodding between our tightlocked bodies tweaked into more comfortable positions and drifted out of my consciousness.

At the moment, Sam was seated in a balloon-tired mooncar, watching as a crew sprayed liquid plastic over the walls and floor of a trench, stabilizing it against movement even under the occasional prod of a moonquake, sealing it against any possibility of leaking air.

Hendrens continued to prod him until he enlightened and entertained them with stories of his adventures as a photojournalism He downplayed the danger he frequently encountered and embellished some of the more humorous anecdotes.

The soldiers, bolder now that the tall plainsman was chained, prodded him and Catchflea to their feet.