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Example sentences for "coaxingly"

Lexicographically close words:
coax; coaxed; coaxes; coaxial; coaxing; cob; cobalt; cobaltic; cobble; cobbled
  1. Blarden with a kind of brisk, hopping gait, and coaxingly digging that gentleman's ribs with the butt of his silver-mounted whip.

  2. He can go to the neighbors and hang on coaxingly to the maid's apron when she goes down to get something, or can even watch for the moment when the door is left open by mistake, and venture down on his own account.

  3. Thousands of your sex would have kept it a secret with shrewd cunning, and only in an hour of sweet forgetfulness would have confided it coaxingly to the ear and soul of their husbands.

  4. Reaching her mother's side, she poked her coaxingly with her wet little muzzle.

  5. But when he called to them coaxingly to come in with him and try it, they turned away their heads and pretended to think it wasn't worth looking at after all.

  6. She went to meet him, with hands coaxingly outstretched.

  7. She flung impulsive arms around her mother's neck and pressed a soft cheek coaxingly to hers.

  8. At the last moment Noel, his eyes very bright and coaxingly friendly, caught her hand and boldly held it.

  9. She, however, her eyes still beaming with happiness, laid her little hand coaxingly on his bearded mouth, and begged him not to sadden her high spirits and hopes of a better time by warnings and dismal forecasts.

  10. Elsie, seating herself upon his knee, twining her arms about his neck, and looking coaxingly into his face.

  11. Standing on tiptoe beside the high stool, she laid a hand coaxingly on the strong, angular shoulder.

  12. She laid her hand coaxingly on his shoulder.

  13. I was seventeen the fifth of last December," says Mascha, looking longingly and coaxingly at Barbara.

  14. Christopher enjoyed it, gazed up into her sparkling eyes, and strained his ribs with the food that she coaxingly urged upon him.

  15. She coaxingly held out her hand as to an ill-tempered child.

  16. Then going to her Daddy she laid her cheek coaxingly against his arm.

  17. Pray do,' said Laura, taking her hand, and coaxingly pulling her back.

  18. Then she would come closer, without a word from her usually nimble little tongue, lean against McWha's knee, and look up coaxingly into his face.

  19. The child looked at her protector's sightless eye, then turned away and sidled over to McWha with one hand coaxingly outstretched.

  20. At another time, I might have been inclined to attach some semi-comical signification to the picture Maggie May held coaxingly out to me.

  21. To any safe retreat in north eastern Europe you choose," coaxingly replied Braun.

  22. Only for his outside matters, Clayton," coaxingly said Ferris.

  23. Polly patted the broad back coaxingly this time.

  24. Ah, do, Ben;" she went up to him and coaxingly patted his cheek.

  25. Mary Stanley, throwing her arms coaxingly round her father's neck, and imprinting a kiss on his venerable forehead.

  26. Christina neglected the pug in her lap for a moment, and laid her hand coaxingly on the old man's shoulder.


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