cajole

How To Use cajole In A Sentence

• Bobileff and crew fettled and cajoled and fairly bullwhipped the old beast back together, then fired her up and into a transporter just hours before the show.
• Usually I can cajole him into cereal, toast or a banana, but this morning - nothing.
• And I cajoled and caroused and codingled a steak dinner from her if she ever sold this novel. November 17th, 2009
• But to some extent the role of central government is to encourage and cajole the national highways agencies and local councils to act to improve road safety. Times, Sunday Times
• She would cajole family members with promises of help and milk and sugar. Times, Sunday Times
• I do not pretend to know what combination of threats and cajolements they offered, but they obviously succeeded.
• Elsewhere, it may be acceptable for shop assistants to flatter and cajole you into buying anything, irrespective of whether it suits you.
• His teaching style was to gently cajole, to encourage when it all came right. Times, Sunday Times
• Flattery, cajolement, humble supplication and the finer maneuvers of tact, all have this in mind. The Foundations of Personality
• Ray "was ready to 'pull the trigger' if the conditions he imposed were not satisfied," Gormley writes, and had to be "cajoled" by a colleague into signing off on the final deal. News