coddle

How To Use coddle In A Sentence

• Those coddled straight-jackets, walled in by their own conventionality ? BEHINDLINGS
• Following the successful implementation of the smoking ban in enclosed public places, they have devised a plan to mollycoddle us into wellness.
• Discouraging words for those who believe that a college's job is to educate, not coddle.
• According to Webster's, to spoil is "to impair the disposition or character by overindulgence or excessive praise; pamper excessively: coddle."
• The steel industry is coddled by trade protection and massive subsidies.
• He grew alarmed by my bouts of breathless coughing; mollycoddle, he said, but he said it with fright in his face. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
• And it was a message that was a heat-seeking mis- sile aimed at otherwise clear-thinking individuals who come from the most coddled, overprotected, information-drenched generation in American history. OBAMA ZOMBIES
• He wants nothing to do with such mollycoddles!
• He was becoming a mollycoddle and a coward, she said, and it was time he stood on his own feet. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
• I was the only child in the family, and I was coddled by my parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles.