How To Use Coddle In A Sentence
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Those coddled straight-jackets, walled in by their own conventionality ?
BEHINDLINGS
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Following the successful implementation of the smoking ban in enclosed public places, they have devised a plan to mollycoddle us into wellness.
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Discouraging words for those who believe that a college's job is to educate, not coddle.
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According to Webster's, to spoil is "to impair the disposition or character by overindulgence or excessive praise; pamper excessively: coddle."
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The steel industry is coddled by trade protection and massive subsidies.
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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
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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
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He wants nothing to do with such mollycoddles!
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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
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I was the only child in the family, and I was coddled by my parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles.
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The early missions coddle the player closely, and provide a comfortable introduction to the game's features.
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There is a limit to the levels at which children can be mollycoddled.
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And it was, understandably, an uneven production, coddled in Sky Sports-style doom-laden graphics, given weight by the restrained but nicely persistent questioning of Gabriel Clarke in the stadium, and siphoned rather jarringly through the expert but gurglingly partisan commentary of Clive Tyldesley "Ji-sung Park SWEEPS in the equaliser!
Adrian Chiles's chumminess strikes right tone as ITV treads carefully | Barney Ronay
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Some may think of us as a nanny state, given the way we coddle our citizens with free health care and equality provisions.
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Cairne Bloodhoof: Ha! There's no need to coddle me, boy. I may be old, but I'm not helpless.
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If they were being mollycoddled and taking advantage of the system, they would be doing well for themselves.
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At the heart of the technocratic agenda was trade liberalization, which threatened the protectionist policies that had coddled the native oligarchs.
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The steel industry is coddled by trade protection and massive subsidies.
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I'm not convinced we should coddle people who, by the time they reach the postdoc level, are so insecure they won't even apply for the jobs they actually want.
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‘The last thing I want to do is be mollycoddled,’ he said.
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One Afghan politician believes that, while Gen. David Petraeus will almost certainly pursue a counterinsurgency strategy similar to his predecessor's, he will be less inclined to "coddle" Karzai on corruption than McChrystal was.
The Economist: Give Petraeus A Chance
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Being the baby of the family he was coddled and treated like glass, as if he would break.
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We do not need to coddle our old people, just ensure them enough income to live adequately.
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They would continue the Middle East wars, pursue drone attacks across the globe, expand and entrench the surveillance state, pander to the failed bankers of Wall Street, coddle Too Big To Fail financial institutions, run cover for gigantic and irresponsible polluters such as BP, pass unpopular and detrimental trade legislation, or continue to neglect the environment and the unemployed.
Robert E. Prasch: President Obama's Speech and the Unemployed: Why Now?
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The problem with Lindsay Lonely and a lot of celebrities who are addicted is that they get coddled.
David Wygant: Is Lindsay Lohan Really Lindsay Lonely?
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And as for Cod, that was derived directly from that "great store of codfish" which Captain Bartholomew Gosnold caught there in 1602; which fish appears to have been so called from the Saxon word codde, "a case in which seeds are lodged," either from the form of the fish, or the quantity of spawn it contains; whence also, perhaps, codling ( "pomum coctile"?) and coddle, -- to cook green like peas.
Cape Cod
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Certain things I'm glad to be rid of, like the hand-holding, wishy-washy, touchy-feely staff that coddles the kids who cause trouble and psychoanalyze the victims of the trouble makers.
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In other once - coddled industries , too, governments are starting to dismantle monopolies.
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coddle eggs
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In other words, it becomes a point of principle that his literature mollycoddles its readers.
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I wonder what those 3,000 "incinerated" victims of September 11 who Henry Hyde likes using for political gain would say about politicians who coddle terrorists who murder US soldiers.
06/15/2006
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Someone who she can smother and mollycoddle and fuss over in a generally overcompensatory way, even though at times it’ll make them fantasise about running away because they feel as if they’re trapped in an emotional straitjacket.
Sandra Bullock Hasn’t Shut Up About Her Baby For Months
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Be aware: the rhetoric anent minorities has been reversed, so that the rural community is now dismissed on the very grounds on which other groups were formerly mollycoddled.
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The players resemble Japan's coddled workers, accustomed to lifetime employment as comfortable as it is unchallenging.
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Successive governments have coddled criminals, allowed them free rein to the point where they believe they own parties and governments.
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I watched in amazement as the players were coddled and treated like gods.
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Mollycoddle half a dozen in air-conditioned luxury aboard an ocean-going trimaran, and peace and harmony shall prevail.
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He agrees with me, and he's no mollycoddle in the critical ring.
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They never wanted to be like the couples who coddled their pets like children.
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Clinton wasn't going to "coddle" Beijing dictators, remember?
Election Central Morning Roundup
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Your article omits this information, and implies with a high level of certainty that such treatment never happened, and that she was essentially coddled.
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For some reason society continues to coddle these mooches, and thus it is considered noble to take part in giving the needy what they want.
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Using the most pampered, coddled and attended individual in the world as a model for "reasonability" when it comes to compensation is beyond daft.
Dealbreaker
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Eggs can be cooked easily and quickly in any number of pleasant ways - poached, fried, scrambled, boiled, coddled, baked and even deep-fried.
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William has managed to coddle his pulsing green quarry of these long, languid days.
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Some Carlsbad residents feel that they need to coddle their budding high-tech companies sprouting around Palomar Airport.
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Being an intelligent child, she really resented the way that she was being coddled.
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If you need to be coddled (and if you do, I don't know what you're still doing in academics), this isn't the place for you.
Variety is the Spice of Life
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If you're lucky to reach this hallowed ground, you'll be flattered and coddled until you've given up the family silver.
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Turkey coddles Islamic fascism and terrorism while claiming the high road in attacking what it calls Kurdish terrorism - the Kurds simply want the Turkish oppression of their language, culture and the occupation of the country to end.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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The next day he rose early, and while the rest of his suite were sleeping went out unattended, returning before breakfast was over with a tally-card showing a killing of thirteen dinosaurs, twenty-seven megatheriums, and about six tons of chlamy-dophori, not to mention a mammoth jack-rabbit that some idiot had told him was the only specimen in the world of the monodelphian mollycoddle.
The Autobiography of Methuselah
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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
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I want to baby you, and coddle you, and spoil you for the rest of my life.
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In the long-term we do them no favors by allowing them to coddle our mutual enemies.
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After a hard day at the office, all I want to do is go home to be mollycoddled.
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He certainly seems uneasy with the accoutrements of fame and says he hates being mollycoddled.
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In the go-go days, dot.coms went public and were coddled by investors like premature babies in incubators.
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Originally we were supposed to conduct the interview on bikes (or "awheel" as the British say) but it ended up snowing and I was afraid that, in the event of a fall, Mr. Thurston (coddled, as are all of his countrymen, by free medical care) would find himself hopelessly embroiled in our country's labyrinthine health care system.
Keeping it Reeled In: Hope or Delusion?
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Swamped with requests for authorizations, statistics that had to be evaluated, decisions that had to be approved, subordinates who had to be coddled, and delegations of Deyzara desperately in need of reassurance, she barely had time to leave her office long enough to say hello to her family before collapsing into the cooled, dehumidified airbed alongside her husband.
Drowning World
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Beyond the obvious nutritional superiority of milk over beer, mistreating dairy cows just doesn't make economic sense; bovines produce better quality and higher volumes of milk when coddled.
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I have been very fortunate in being brought up in a generation which has been mollycoddled.
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It was lovely, not only to go diving but to be nannied and coddled for 20 minutes.
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Father "gangbanger" Boyle gets millions from city to coddle his gang members and he needs to be audited.
"Gang Czar" Tax On Homeowners Headed For Ballot
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Count me among the "coddled" inefficent college student.
Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2009 – April – 20
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He does not spoon-feed or coddle his audience; he does not always explain all the minute particulars of every event he discusses.
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We mollycoddle prisoners in this country, to some degree.
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They relocated eggs and birds to new areas and coddled them.
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It's as if moviegoers have been coddled by the comforting filters and film stock of major motion pictures over the years.
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Japan's courts also appear unwilling to erect barriers to coddle the Old Guard.
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Let's not mollycoddle our students!
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Look Sarah, I am sorry if you think it is the right thing to do to "coddle" a person under ...
Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles
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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
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Look Sarah, I am sorry if you think it is the right thing to do to "coddle" a person under the age of 18 by treating them with "kids gloves" in your response to them on here.
Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles
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The steel industry is coddled by trade protection and massive subsidies.
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And because the kids are such "coddled," "narcissistic praise junkies," they'll be beyond tough to bring into the military.
Boing Boing
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Needless to say, I was not treated like a coddled princeling there.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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And by the way, just as these politicians flattered, overlooked, and cosseted Murdoch in desperate pursuit and defense of their own self-interest -- the way schoolyard victims are obsequiously and tail-waggingly respectful to schoolyard bullies -- so too did both the Labor and Conservative parties coddle the indigenous Murdochs of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria.
Adam Hanft: Murdoch's Arab Summer; We Always Knew, Now We Know
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Elsewhere, Hastert said the Democratic plan would "coddle" -- oh, how they love to accuse others of coddling -- "the same terrorists who plan to harm innocent Americans and their freedom worldwide.
Joshuah Bearman: The Tyranny of the Detainee Bill
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And part of the problem is these spin-dry cycles that are purported to be rehabs, that send you in and out in a few days, and coddle to you, and, you know, give you cell phones when you need them, the bottom line is -- here ` s the deal.
CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2007
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The temptation to mollycoddle people who are unable to deal with insulting challenges to themselves or their beliefs is very strong.
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The United States has the most spoiled, pampered and coddled athletes in the world.
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As late as the 1990s, some old-timers from Bishop [California, a town near Manzanar], were adamant that the internees had been "coddled," and that there never were guards or guard towers.
Bringing Dark Times to Light
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The "tough on crime" crowd says that criminals get what they deserve, and insist on the myth that prisoners are "coddled" in country-club-like conditions.
What i'm reading: committing journalism
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That's why her company coddles and pampers its mostly upper-middle class and upper class clients.
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He does not spoon-feed or coddle his audience; he does not always explain all the minute particulars of every event he discusses.
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Others have claimed that the internees were "coddled" and that there were never any guard towers.
Bringing Dark Times to Light
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They continue to be coddled, which is why Larry and those of his ilk persist in it.
Jason Clarke's meta feed
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Wanting to see the law respected is not the same as wanting to "coddle" our enemies.
Borger: CIA flap a huge headache for Obama
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The CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, has said that he now has to "coddle" his employees, and even the U.S. military has encouraged its drillmasters to do less shouting because, according to Under Secretary of Defense David Chu, today's generation of recruits respond better to instructors who play "a more counseling-type role.
Hillary and the Gender Wars
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If you don't know how to coddle an egg, here's how: Poke a hole in the bottom with a pin.
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I wish I could hold her in my arms and mollycoddle her, the way I did when she was just a baby.
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I have always looked out for myself, I don't need any one to mollycoddle me.
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As Republicans tell it, anyone who votes against legalizing Bush's surveillance and detainee treatment programs is voting to '' coddle '' terrorists.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: House Set to Vote on Eavesdropping Bill
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The D.A. of this county in New York takes on a system that she says coddles criminals.
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Despite being coddled at the nursery with fertilizer and water, the plants face transplant stress.
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He wrote that the function of fantasy was ‘consolation’, thereby making it an article of policy that a fantasy writer should mollycoddle the reader.
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When you coast by these places at night, you can observe under every table cloth a set of eight knobbly candle-white knees dangling from voluminous bags of shorts, above which ample stomachs are coddled by familiar, comforting tuck.
Good morning, Melaque: one day in a small Mexico beach town
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But as long as America coddles its grain farmers, other nations won't drop import tariffs on U.S. meat.
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You know that one can never gain honor if he is pampered and coddled like this!
