How to Use nudge in a Sentence

nudge

verb

• The dog nudged the ball with his nose.
• He nudged me and pointed to the deer.
• I nudged the plate closer to him.
• The price of gold has nudged a little higher.
• The guard nudged the prisoner forward.
• The salesman nudged her into testing out the car.
• Album sales are nudging the one million mark.
• Schenker would nudge him on which parts to step it up and cut loose more on the bass.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 11 June 2022
• Juvenile elephants used their tusks to gently nudge a dead body in two instances.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 18 May 2022
• What if future children aspired to be the kind of person who nudged a new breakthrough into existence?
  — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2024
• Anderson made it safely by diving, but Donaldson, playing third, tried to nudge him off the base.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2022
• Disney nudged its streaming services into cash-flow positive last quarter.
  — David Bloom, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
• Brooks quickly backpedaled in appeasing the crowd eager to keep their focus on the past while still attempting to nudge them toward the future.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 21 June 2022
• President Biden does control policies that can nudge the price of gas in one direction or another.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 13 May 2022
• The first draft was a loud reminder of the value and the purpose of a good editor, which is to nudge you to the best while also pushing you, with force, away from the worst.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
• Fortunately, the Fed just nudged us closer to the right side of the bed—its recent rate cut will improve clean energy economics.
  — Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
• The rest of the game's mechanics have been shifted from the Smash Bros. archetype to nudge players into using their special co-op powers.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 19 May 2022
• Perhaps our findings might nudge some politicians to reconsider their policy positions.
  — Haider J. Warraich, STAT, 8 June 2022
• To that, the lawsuit for breach of fiduciary duty and tortious interference may serve as a wedge to strongly nudge a reaction in arbitration.
  — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024
• Wardian admitted he's been discouraged at times by the lack of sidewalks along his route, the drivers who have rolled down their windows to call him an idiot, the truckers who have tried to nudge him off the road.
  — Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 1 July 2022
• Amazon likely already knows the new policy will nudge dissatisfied workers out, meaning the company will no longer have to go through the tough process of formal layoffs.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2024
• Introducing the sound of gunfire and having people close to the bison was meant to nudge the massive animals back to the adjacent forest where they legally could be hunted.
  — Felicia Fonseca, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2022
• If it was nudged, the whole shot would have to be done again.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• Light south winds nudge highs into the mid-50s to near 60.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• Once, in the 1930s, as part of an Iowa State Fair stunt, folks nudged a Guernsey cow onto the plane.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
• Nooyi soon nudged her to take her career to the next level.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 23 May 2024
• Changing the venue to a more private place might at least nudge you out of your rut.
  — Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2024
• The San Diego group pulled even with Las Vegas last fall, then nudged ahead over the winter.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2023
• For her, the option to work part of her job remotely nudged her to return to the world of work.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2023
• When that didn't work, a nearby customer used their cart to nudge it out the door, Palmer said.
  — Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press, 4 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024