How To Use Cosset In A Sentence
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Between she and my mother, I was tended like the rarest of blooms, fed and cosseted like a delicate rose.
2009 May « Becca’s Byline
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It occurred to me, as I took my bag over, that it might be airline policy to comfort those who were going home for reasons such as mine with an upgrade, to cosset them through the night with quiet sympathy and an extra blanket or something.
The Empty Family
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Liberalizing professional services, by abolishing or clipping the powers of cosseted guild associations, and making employment contracts easier to end are two of the most explosive issues in Italian politics.
Italy Buffeted by Greece News
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His target was the traditional social model, the set of protections and regulations that have cosseted European workers for so long.
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Our current cosseted life is fooling us into thinking that we will be immune.
Times, Sunday Times
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You don't feel cosseted or pampered, just on edge.
Times, Sunday Times
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You don't feel cosseted or pampered, just on edge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Had one noble thought opening the chambers of the intellect, one sentiment from the heart of God been spoken by them, the reader had been made a participator of their triumph; he too had been an invited and eternal guest; but this reward granted them is property, all-excluding property, a little cake baked for them to eat and for none other, nay, a preference and cosseting which is rude and insulting to all but the minion.
Uncollected Prose
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The women had gathered around me, making the kinds of soothing noises that always made me nervous, and they herded me up to some rooms where they fed me, bathed me, and cosseted me, deftly deflecting any of my questions, all under the capable direction of the woman named Sarah.
Raziel
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He had always been fond of Jinx - in other circumstances, the bipedal tiger might have become a cosseted pet.
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He is bored of the cosseted expat life of compounds and bodyguards.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Waited on by servants and valets, doted on by his parents, the young prince could not have had a more cosseted start to life.
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No other group in society has been so cosseted from the real world, so protected from the consequences of its own actions and so compensated for its own inadequacies.
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Lawrence considers these questions through the medium of English rural life, beginning his story in the small Midlands village of Cossethay just as a canal has been built through it to connect the new collieries, bringing the first signs of the "commotion" – the violation, in Lawrence's sexual-topographical vision – of industrialisation to the slumbrous valley.
Rereading: The Rainbow by DH Lawrence
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Our kind of travel is definitely not suitable for people who expect to be cosseted.
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Players can be cosseted too much.
Times, Sunday Times
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But to forestall the recognition of a Palestinian state he will happily cosset influential end-timers like Glenn Beck, who apparently has a touch of Jerusalem syndrome, a religiously-induced form of psychosis I first learned about from an episode of The X-Files, in which a grey-haired millionaire leaves a trail of mayhem and destruction in his wake following a trip to the holy city.
Ariel Gonzalez: Infallible Israel
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In fact, a lady does not wish to be a skeleton of organisation to dominate a world, as well as afterwards cosset woman, would adore for him is a male of bad convergence.
Archive 2009-12-01
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They are pampered and cosseted all the way and they cannot play 90 minutes of football in one day.
The Sun
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The new version uses many of the same lines as the original, including the one about Palin being "cosseted" but the paragraph about Biden not mentioning his son is gone.
Verum Serum
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When one has one's flowers by the specimen and not by the score, such cosseting is possible.
Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden
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To leave some in Pakistan to conclude that cosseting America's No. 1 enemy was not a fatal foolishness on their part might seem a tad unwise.
Civilization Vindicated
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Europe's aging and "cosseted" populations are underproductive and self-satisfied.
Prudential
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Nothing cossets these hacks like the conviction that happy people aren't happy.
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Our more cosseted generation is more likely to spend its Saturday afternoons sipping skinny lattes in city centre coffee bars.
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This is the most delicately flavoured rhubarb there is, cosseted and pampered to keep its subtlety.
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Our kind of travel is definitely not suitable for people who expect to be cosseted.
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But to forestall the recognition of a Palestinian state he will happily cosset influential end-timers like Glenn Beck, who apparently has a touch of Jerusalem syndrome, a religiously-induced form of psychosis I first learned about from an episode of The X-Files, in which a grey-haired millionaire leaves a trail of mayhem and destruction in his wake following a trip to the holy city.
Ariel Gonzalez: Infallible Israel
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And it is an easy sport to continue when you leave the cosseted world of organised school sport and have to think for yourself.
Times, Sunday Times
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cosseting"; she laughed to scorn, but genially, the nurse's prejudice against "the night air.
In the Wilderness
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Players can be cosseted too much.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our more cosseted generation is more likely to spend its Saturday afternoons sipping skinny lattes in city centre coffee bars.
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The flowers and bushes are in bloom; flox cossets the rocks on the neighbor's front lawn; at night you can hear the burble of a waterfall across the street.
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Strolling the soft golden sands lipping the Black Sea, I am cosseted by the thought I am shadowing the footsteps of Russia's finest…
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He is bored of the cosseted expat life of compounds and bodyguards.
The Times Literary Supplement
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For a large part its because we've been cosseted and protected by America.
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Cosseted all winter in socks, your feet now are most likely gadding about in strappy sandals, flip-flops and peep-toe wedges.
Wanted for Assault
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If our personal road transport is destined to be in a futuristic bubble, then maybe our air travel could involve a similarly cosseted pod-like experience.
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Having been cushioned and cosseted for most of my life, I knew it was a journey I had to make on my own.
GYPSY MASALA
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After Zac, there is Yvan, the baby, who is cosseted and overfed, with pettishly long hair.
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It is designed to cosset its crew.
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They did not cosset their womenfolk and they considered those who did so to be unmanly.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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From the moment you are met at Malé airport you are pampered and cosseted and looked after.
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The young Howard Hughes was not helped by his over-protective mother who cosseted him to such an extent that he was not even allowed to go to school for fear he would not be properly looked after.
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The full leather trim is standard, cosseting the occupants, and there are plenty of practical features to assist in making the journey that much more enjoyable.
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I bet it will be a humdinger, and if I weren't so tired, my brother about to exit, and my mental health in need of lots of after-hours cosseting, I would be there.
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ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet and his successor, Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi, sent a letter late last week to the Italian government callingfor faster spending cuts, an overhaulof Italy'slabor rulesand measures to liberalize cosseted business sectors, a person familiar with the matter said Monday.
ECB Puts Pressure on Italy
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The silence comes from an allegedly compassionate desire to protect or cosset the poor, rather than treating them like responsible adults.
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There's something pleasing about the way it eschews all the standard baggage that comes with middle-of-the-road, Radio 2-playlisted artists: no gentle trip-hop breakbeats or cosseting synth washes, no hitmaking songwriters-for-hire buried in the credits, no post-Amy Winehouse retro soul or supper-club jazz scenery.
Rumer: seasons of my soul – review
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Our current cosseted life is fooling us into thinking that we will be immune.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are pampered and cosseted all the way and they cannot play 90 minutes of football in one day.
The Sun
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If our personal road transport is destined to be in a futuristic bubble, then maybe our air travel could involve a similarly cosseted pod-like experience.
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Instead of unquestioned fealty to one's superior officer, an ambitious soldier might now have to think of cosseting the president and the public, via the media.
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And Jurgen wondered that this should be the notion Chloris had of him, and that a gesture should be the things she remembered about him: and he was doubly assured that no woman bothers to understand the man she elects to love and cosset and slave for.
Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
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We return to the issue of how 'cosseted' people like him are and he concedes: 'The rock world does take you a little bit away from reality.
Home | Mail Online
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If the cosseting was a simple demonstration of respect towards a world leader, then why the flippancy towards Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II?
NY Post: News
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I hate playing scrabble when I can't use the words I know that aren't in "the dictionary" 'cosset' being a favorite and I get accused of making things up.
A pitiful excuse for a post - A Dress A Day
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And it is an easy sport to continue when you leave the cosseted world of organised school sport and have to think for yourself.
Times, Sunday Times
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The flowers and bushes are in bloom; flox cossets the rocks on the neighbor's front lawn; at night you can hear the burble of a waterfall across the street.
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The effect is, however, both to cosset and alienate the individuals who matter most: the players.
England's rugby players lost in RFU's business scrum | Observer editorial
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Meanwhile, we Europeans congratulated ourselves on forging a deal at Kyoto that would halt the oceans' rise and cosset the ice-deprived polar bears so memorably depicted in Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth.
How Not to Run Environmental Policy
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The team were still wrapped together in the comfort zone of a four-year period when each had cosseted and protected the other.
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He's been through hard times: his hardscrabble childhood on the veld would make David Copperfield's seem cosseted by comparison.
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Is it just me that finds it beyond bizarre that some people expect POC to cosset and protect them from discomfort in order for there to be appropriate conversations about how racism affects POC?
Oh, wow. free verse dinocorns.
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Further changes in the proposed combined baryta-soda method for juice purification consist in using powdered soda carbonate 90-92°, upon beet cossettes as they leave the slicer, before entering the diffusor.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891
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Now I would rather a player was cosseted than pummelled.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her early life was cosseted by her immense riches.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each evening the horses were bedded down, fed, watered, cosseted and crooned at.
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Since Christiane's doctor has warned her son that she must never experience any more shocks, Alex cossets his mother in their apartment.
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On June 21, 2011, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Song Tao met with his Canadian counterpart Gerald Cossette in Ottawa, capital of Canada.
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It seems that in Japanese there is simply no way to say something that simple without cosseting it heavily in a bunch of formal etiquette-stuff.
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The crucial ingredient, the key to successful cocooning, is a cosseted feeling underfoot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fernando Lazlo Tables for Etel Recent work: Mr. Casas has been commissioned to design several hotels in Rio to cosset in style the crush of expected visitors to the Olympics.
The New Icons of Design
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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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By the end of the first glass of champagne we had been cosseted, pampered and ready for whatever Jacques and Laurent might suggest!
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But she worries about him, and cossets him - and then of course, my father, wonderful man though he is, realises he's got someone at his beck and call and plays up to it.
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Here are a few drinks ideas to help cosset your mum on Mothering Sunday.
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Lawrence considers these questions through the medium of English rural life, beginning his story in the small Midlands village of Cossethay just as a canal has been built through it to connect the new collieries, bringing the first signs of the "commotion" – the violation, in Lawrence's sexual-topographical vision – of industrialisation to the slumbrous valley.
Rereading: The Rainbow by DH Lawrence
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To evoke the enfilade, two long galleries were divided into rows of rooms, the doors between them fixed open, their interiors cosseted by paneled wainscoting, velvet walls and tufted furniture.
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And it's not just pampered pooches and cosseted cats who are in with a chance of stealing the show.
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The successful five were moved into a plush secret location with the kind of kitchen folks like us can only dream about; they were cosseted and counselled, indulged and admired.
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The paintings of the Post-Impressionists, including Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, which formerly hung in the claustrophobic, columned Bellechasse gallery, are cosseted now one floor below in small, elegant, midnight-blue galleries dedicated to the late scholar Françoise Cachin, who served as the museum's first director.
New Visions Arrive at the Orsay
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Ages 12+Wealthy Zarita has enjoyed a cosseted life as the daughter of the local magistrate; Saulo's life has been dogged by persecution, danger and poverty.
Recommended reads: ages 11–13
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What must it be like, she wondered as she drove, to be so pampered and cosseted ?
COLDHEART CANYON
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On June 21, 2011, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Song Tao met with his Canadian counterpart Gerald Cossette in Ottawa, capital of Canada.
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You are quite cosseted throughout but at the end I felt vulnerable.
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Every woman wants to be adored, loved, cosseted and taken care of and protected.
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Whereupon in floods of tears, the Misses Redwood made for me, and insisted on being taken up one on each knee and "cosseted" because of what the big ugly boy had done.
Tom, Dick and Harry
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Her early life was cosseted by her immense riches.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now I would rather a player was cosseted than pummelled.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is bored of the cosseted expat life of compounds and bodyguards.
The Times Literary Supplement
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At the Parrot Cay resort, guests enjoy a simple but luxurious aesthetic of white walls, cavernous bathrooms and four-poster beds, as well as "cosseting" service.
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