How To Use Coaxing In A Sentence
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My son caught it by knocking it off the car with a twig, then coaxing it on to a piece of card, and then putting it in a jam jar.
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But the idea of coaxing Viscount Rawleigh down to Cornwall died a swift death.
Unforgiven
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Despite the fact he was only thirteen, it seemed the young prince was already a Casanova in the making, an expert at coaxing and cajoling girls.
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The production team buzzed around her like flies, coaxing her gently on to the stage as if they were handling fragile goods.
The Sun
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It took very little coaxing to get Clyde to bring his dowsing rods to the next class.
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The production team buzzed around her like flies, coaxing her gently on to the stage as if they were handling fragile goods.
The Sun
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I perceive a coaxing sound in that soft strain of yours.
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Erotic images prove useful in coaxing out unconscious brain activity
Six word story
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The senior quarterback with the pro-style touch made the big plays and avoided interceptions against a defense that led the nation in coaxing them.
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With the minimum of fuss, two masseurs, working in unison, applied hot medicated oils over my body and set about the task of coaxing the knots out of my protesting muscles.
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She was plucking its leaves with a tweezer, coaxing the potency into its blossoms.
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
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His coaching style is relaxed, gently coaxing but with a hint of steel.
The Sun
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Blanche wormed the details out of a very reluctant Stella with much coaxing and promising of new clothes.
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The charities are brutally businesslike in coaxing dollars from the wallets of the super-rich.
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Rub a small amount of dry shampoo into eyebrows using fingers to amplify shape and thickness while coaxing and securing any unruly hairs into place.
The Sun
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Switzerland is renowned for coaxing people back to optimum health and happiness through its fresh mountain air and clinics.
Times, Sunday Times
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The coaxing tone in which he said these latter words might have failed in its object, if he had not accompanied them with sundry sharp jerks of his thumb over one shoulder, and with divers winks and thrustings of his tongue into his cheek, from which signals the damsel gathered that he sought to speak to her apart, concerning Miss Haredale and Dolly.
Barnaby Rudge
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Xaphista spoke to her often, coaxing one minute, taunting the next.
TREASON KEEP
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I smiled and walked faster, coaxing him to walk faster too.
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She cocked her head to one side with a sly smile, like a toddler coaxing a treat from a grownup.
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The Lamb was furiously unwishful to be dressed in his warm clothes again, but Anthea and Jane managed it, by force disguised as coaxing, and he never once whooping-coughed.
The Phoenix and the Carpet
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I'm all for gently coaxing language in a kindly direction; but it cannot be wrenched.
Times, Sunday Times
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The emigrants had great fun at first coaxing their unwary fellows to stand near the windward gangway, and get well "soused" by the water which now and then came dashing over the rails.
The Liberian Exodus. An Account of Voyage of the First Emigrants in the Bark "Azor," and Their Reception at Monrovia, with a Description of Liberia--Its Customs and Civilization, Romances and Prospects.
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Under Rather's gentle coaxing, Southards described slaughtering Vietnamese civilians, making his work appear to be that of the North Vietnamese.
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Or is it merely a piece of flummery you've succeeded in coaxing His Grace to swallow?
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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“Sometimes a mitzvah is seeing for yourself and coaxing a smile from the darkness.”
She Glides Along ... the Solitary Hearted
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Meg kept silence a while, then she said coaxingly, 'Si is a pretty name eneuch; 'tis short an' sweet; gie me a kiss, Si, 'she wheedled, with a gentle clasp about his waist.
Border Ghost Stories
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Half an hour was spent coaxing it off the track to safety.
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Rub a small amount of dry shampoo into eyebrows using fingers to amplify shape and thickness while coaxing and securing any unruly hairs into place.
The Sun
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I'm all for gently coaxing language in a kindly direction; but it cannot be wrenched.
Times, Sunday Times
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A bit of gentle coaxing is all that's required and he'll come, I'm sure.
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Today's shifting is nearly effortless thanks to precise spring-loaded mechanisms coaxing the chain from one gear to the next.
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He nodded, and soon she went about her work, coaxing the muddy roots from the ground for springtime use.
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For a little reputation at a dinner table, for a coaxing nobe from some titled demirep affecting the De Stael, they forget not only to be glorious but even to be respectable.
Godolphin, Volume 2.
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Guided by an inner-something that could only have been instinct, she was soon making silly noises and coaxing delighted squeals from the little tyrant.
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After coaxing the bird on to his arm, he started to make his way back home.
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Sometimes, in calm seas, when the outboard stuttered and needed coaxing with frequent plug de-oilings, Angus would row the boat.
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Right out of the bottle, the nose is a little taut and doesn't offer much, but with a little coaxing, bright, fresh aromas of juicy pear citrus and sweet basil emerge.
Long Island Dines
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He had a way of coaxing extra performance out of tired machinery.
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He expected good behaviour and his rather grim glance in her direction did more to motivate her into action than any coaxing.
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His coaching style is relaxed, gently coaxing but with a hint of steel.
The Sun
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Zeke brought his mouth to mine again, this time coaxing me to wrap him in an embrace.
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A mother was coaxing her reluctant child into the water.
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Alex was coaxing a fire from the wet wood we'd gathered.
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No, all it has taken is a nice, warm bed and an active imagination coaxing me into a deep sleep.
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The whine in her voice gave him hope; the plea seemed languorous, a bit coaxing.
DANSVILLE
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He was coaxing me to walk a bit further without having to carry me, by promising that it was just a bit further.
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She remembered Errol—finally, and with a little coaxing, oh yes, she remembered Errol—but had no recollection of being a kissogram.
Kalooki Nights
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It was his father who saw his potential and started cajoling and coaxing him into playing.
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The strong swimmer is in the lake at Glencarrick; he swims for life and death; the little child is on his back; wet and bewildered; he feels the touch of its small soft frightened lips, pressed coaxingly on his neck, on his shoulder; he hears its terrified cry over the waters: "Clephane! my darlin 'Clephane!" he sees Clephane sinking - sinking - sinking - among reeds and a tangled network of weeds.
Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
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I'm all for gently coaxing language in a kindly direction; but it cannot be wrenched.
Times, Sunday Times
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The whine in her voice gave him hope; the plea seemed languorous, a bit coaxing.
DANSVILLE
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Guided by an inner-something that could only have been instinct, she was soon making silly noises and coaxing delighted squeals from the little tyrant.
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The principal of a traditional public school is not charged with coaxing capital funds out of voters, scoping out real estate, or overseeing construction.
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The devil also paid her a visit, coaxing her to spit on a cross and break a rosary.
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One might imagine that the amount of time and trouble one spends in coaxing a truant word back into the memory would inscribe it indelibly on one's heart and ensure that that particular creature, at any rate, should never escape again: whereas in fact, like a once-dislocated ankle, it is more than ever liable to slip out.
Try Anything Twice
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They are willing to contribute to and collaborate with the youths, often spending long hours coaxing and prompting.
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Back here in Austin, Ms. Zanotti was coaxing her audience to establish networks, to cross-link, to join together as communities to act as watchdogs.
The Sam Adams Project - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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DiMarco proves himself a capable director by sticking neophyte actors in extreme situations and then coaxing sober, appropriate responses from them.
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Mr. K — had some difficulty in coaxing the picture from the old chief; so pleased was he with this rude representation of himself.
Roughing It in the Bush
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They demand coaxing with a bristle brush and an orangewood stick.
Buttered Side Down
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These are followed by chicken cutlets covered in a coating of crushed cornflakes that first need massaging and coaxing into crumbs.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is a genial companion, coaxing the reader through unfamiliar material and finding colour, humour and literary appeal in the most unlikely places.
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His timing remained exquisite, expertly coaxing laughs from the bleakest onscreen situation.
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Hearing Hope: Researchers have succeeded in coaxing ear cells to regenerate, providing hope for the deaf:
Archive 2003-06-01
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Her work today focuses on coaxing stem cells to replace diseased lung tissue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jones proves to be a sympathetic director, coaxing Pepper to one of his most convincing performances as a callous, black-hearted wretch.
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Last Tuesday the council's town development committee voted to put aside £10,000 in next year's budget to provide dovecotes in the hope of coaxing the birds away from the town centre.
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He is adept at coaxing performances from actors with little or no experience.
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She could not understand how such a surly man could make such a coaxing sound.
The Secret Garden
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a coaxing and obsequious voice
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After coaxing them to the surface with your feet, it's a simple matter of reaching down and scooping them up.
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Our French photographers swooped in, coaxing her into fun, flattering clothes and complimenting her in their soothing accents.
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Advanced Information Systems gives participating gas stations the first and last spots free for their own marketing message - a powerful tool, according to CEO Mark McKinley, for coaxing consumers into a station minimart.
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Cooking softens and sweetens the flesh, coaxing out a rich flavour, and changing its colour to reddy gold.
Times, Sunday Times
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We actually were puddling around in a metre and a half of water, with water up to our chests, coaxing cows along fence lines and onto races and back to safety.
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He uses a prepared piano on a number of tracks, sometimes coaxing harpsichord-like timbres from it.
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With the minimum of fuss, two masseurs, working in unison, applied hot medicated oils over my body and set about the task of coaxing the knots out of my protesting muscles.
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Many of his memories of his homeland are of sitting in traffic jams or waiting in lineups that ate up time he would have preferred to spend coaxing notes from his guitar.
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He expected good behaviour and his rather grim glance in her direction did more to motivate her into action than any coaxing.
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She rolls her eyes like a timid kitten, and then all at once tamed, nestles against me, with a coaxing air of childishness, which is a delightfully transparent assumption.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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She rolls her eyes like a timid kitten, and then all at once tamed, nestles against me, with a coaxing air of childishness, which is
Madame Chrysantheme — Complete
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Jim tried coaxing him away with a glass of brandy, which Albert thought a low device.
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Five minutes of weeding routs accidie, and "provides an incentive to be in the open air without the intolerable necessity for striking, coaxing, pursuing or intercepting any kind, shape or size of ball ...
Try Anything Twice
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Granted, they're probably concentrating on coaxing surrenders from conscript units on the front, but this is a task that cannot be ignored.
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That was one thing settled and sealed, so no more need be said about it; yet, notwithstanding of Nanse's being satisfied that the spaewife was a deceitful gipsy, perfectly untrustworthy, she would aye have a finger in the pie, and try to persuade me in a coaxing way.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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His coaching style is relaxed, gently coaxing but with a hint of steel.
The Sun
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Once again, Geoff reached the crux of the procedure: coaxing the lens through the small incision, a move about as easy as extracting the yolk from a hard-boiled egg without removing the shell.
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I never knew but one woman who had the same coaxing, fooling ways with her, and, begorra, sir, she was a demon in petticoats!
Only an Irish Girl
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Her eyes, he wrote, ‘were of a tawny black, full of exotic languor and coaxing softness’.
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She knew no greater thrill than coaxing a child from the womb, and receiving it alive into her own hands, wet, warm and squirming.
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The coaxing tone in which he said these latter words might have failed in its object, if he had not accompanied them with sundry sharp jerks of his thumb over one shoulder, and with divers winks and thrustings of his tongue into his cheek, from which signals the damsel gathered that he sought to speak to her apart, concerning
Barnaby Rudge
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Billy's consent to sell her pretties had been hard to get, but at last she succeeded in coaxing it out of him.
CHAPTER XIX
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The devil also paid her a visit, coaxing her to spit on a cross and break a rosary.
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Red-cheeked and panting in the thin air, she was slogging up a grassy mountainside in eastern Tibet, fuming at me while coaxing along a small white horse that carried our baggage.
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Stephen Taaffe's penetrating look at the Army's "one indispensable man," by contrast, skirts the chief of staff's more conspicuous duties, such as coaxing funds out of a skinflint Congress, locking horns with Winston Churchill over grand strategy and training millions of civilians to wage war.
Casting the Plan For Victory
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The production team buzzed around her like flies, coaxing her gently on to the stage as if they were handling fragile goods.
The Sun
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`Come here,' she said coaxingly
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She took over the Center's public shows, coaxing brilliant swoops and dives for schoolkids and anyone else who would watch, enchanted as much as her audience.
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I know people who talk to their plants so this is another aspect involved in cultivation, which involves coaxing them to grow and produce nice, healthy fruit.
Farm Journal: A Developing Philosophy on Weeding
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Some were seen coaxing their pigs up the stairs!
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For the moment he has been resisting the president's blandishments and coaxing on the war policy.
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We finger-styled Tamara's hair fresh out of the shower, coaxing out the natural wave in her otherwise pin-straight hair.
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Finally, after ten minutes of coaxing, she got me to the doorstep of my house and hesitantly I pressed the doorbell.
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When that coaxing didn't work, he asserted his authority, made the most of his status and simply stomped his feet, demanding more.
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The named individuals have resorted to coaxing players to quit after encountering stumbling blocks with the clubs in securing the release of the players for trials abroad.
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I at last succeeded in coaxing Hector into the girl's room, where I shut him up, while the stranger came into the kitchen, and walked to the fire to dry his wet clothes.
Roughing It in the Bush
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If you saved a poinsettia from last year's holidays, October's the time to start coaxing it back into bloom.
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I occupied myself in coaxing a very cross fire to burn, which at last it did, quite brightly.
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Tak 'a drappy mair, sir," he whispered in a coaxing, old-wivish tone;
Alec Forbes of Howglen
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‘Time to go, hon,’ Mattie's voice was quiet and coaxing - the same tone most people use with small children.
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Biologically speaking, the feat is the bacterial equivalent of removing lungs and coaxing the disembodied tissue to breathe.
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