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elicits
verb as in draw out
Example Sentences
Nearly every presenter tonight makes a joke about having sampled the wares; not a single one elicits more than a few chuckles.
Even the individual mandate elicits just narrow disapproval, 51% to 47%.
Now, thinking of her elicits, at the very least, a laugh, if not genuine excitement.
Such honesty is what elicits that satisfying flicker in a reader, Of course.
Sheikh Jarrah elicits hope,” Zvi Benninga says toward the end of My Neighborhood, “but it is set in a reality that scares me.
Our cause is a just one; the greatest at present that elicits the attention of the world.
And when they are opened, it throws a gleam on the page, which secures attention, and elicits admiration.
This is enough about moral propriety as a principle of tragic emotion, and the pleasure it elicits.
We here see the triumph of the moral law, so sublime an experience for us that we might even hail the calamity which elicits it.
Now the repartee of one elicits a laugh from the other; this passes from man to man, and the whole flotilla enjoy the joke.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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