Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "coaxed"

Lexicographically close words:
coating; coatings; coatless; coats; coax; coaxes; coaxial; coaxing; coaxingly; cob
  1. Then he coaxed Jim into making the lying appeal necessary to sell the needle cases, and whenever Jim managed to make a sale Danny's praises knew no bounds.

  2. At this the party would have scampered off to do his bidding but for little Millie Croxson, the baby, who had succumbed to a nameless fear, and had to be coaxed and carried to the scene of action.

  3. If Tippu-Tib appeared a trifle indifferent he knew how to assume it, he knew he would be coaxed to good humour with gifts.

  4. I frigged her, kissed her a little, coaxed her, and then fucked her.

  5. For a few minutes we coaxed and fondled, kissed and cried, saying it was not fair, and we never would.

  6. I finally coaxed her to let me have Bunch out to spend a few hours with us on that occasion.

  7. Sure the brute Might wellnigh have plain speech coaxed out of tongue, And grow as voluble as Rakhsh himself At such mad outrage.

  8. We coaxed and coaxed until Mr. Wilson said we might ride along if we didn't get in the way.

  9. Valerie was not looking so well this morning and the other girls had coaxed her to lie down for a while.

  10. Kennedy was never in a condition to be so easily coaxed as now.

  11. It was of course possible that Zack may have coaxed others to accompany him on his mission of revenge; but if he had company why should he appeal to his bitter enemy when in desperate need of succor?

  12. It was our little friend, Willie Danforth, the washerwoman's boy, for whom the hermit had taken a large fancy since Edgar left him, and often coaxed him from his mother to pass a few nights at the hut in the forest.

  13. So Mrs. Orville coaxed Hannah away from you?

  14. We coaxed and pleaded and tried to bribe, and that happened, as it turned out, to be one of the worst things we had to endure.

  15. Thus cleverly made sure, we quickly brought a strain upon the hippo, and, although I have had some experience in handling big fish, I never knew one pull so lustily as the amphibious animal that we now alternately coaxed and bullied.

  16. The horse several times snorted loudly, and stared fixedly at the terrible face before him; but as I constantly patted and coaxed him, he did not refuse to advance.

  17. I now dismounted, and having patted and coaxed the horse, I led him up to the body of the lion, which I also patted, and then gave my hand to the horse to smell.

  18. There is an old diary of one of our ancestors in the library, and I have coaxed Aunt Griselda now and then to let me read in it.

  19. Phil had once or twice coaxed his mother to unpack the old trunk, for among the books was his pet "Robinson Crusoe.

  20. And Schonberg held out for many minutes and had to be argued with, and coaxed by, half the Hammond contingent.

  21. Mammy pretended to rise, but two of the older children ran and coaxed Willis to sit by them and listen to the story.

  22. But you'll do it to please me, Rattlesnake," coaxed Miss Barndollar.

  23. Lifting his horse to the work Mr. Masterson coaxed it through trail-devouring hours.

  24. Hasilrig stormed at him, and Vane coaxed him; but there he sat, and there he would sit!

  25. He crammed it under the thick core of moss and brushwood, and feeding them plentifully with brandy coaxed the flame into the driest part of the stuff.

  26. But I am no child to be coaxed with sugar.

  27. Sometimes he coaxed and sometimes he complained.

  28. When he wanted to persuade people to do any particular thing, he took enormous pains, seeming to touch by instinct all the feelings and reasons which moved or disturbed them, and very often he coaxed or compelled them to his wishes.

  29. Mrs. Sandworth, who had been coaxed to a fitful attention by the promise of a coherent story.

  30. He made friends with one of the maids, who told him the history of the snuff-box, and he coaxed her to let him see it.

  31. Then the King coaxed and entreated his daughter to go with Jack and so save both their lives.

  32. I think I can eat a morsel, if coaxed hard enough," said Jane, laughing.

  33. I did not want to, but you coaxed me to it.

  34. It happened one day that my mother had coaxed Mr Caxton to walk with her to market.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coaxed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.