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Example sentences for "coddled"

Lexicographically close words:
cocottes; coction; cod; coda; coddle; coddling; code; coded; codeine; codes
  1. After all, he is a West Indian, born British, brought up under Danish rule, which is like being coddled by one's grandmother.

  2. He coddled and petted the entire family, particularly his little daughter Angelica, and they adored him, and knew naught of his depths.

  3. When your lamb is boil'd pour over it parsley and butter, with coddled gooseberries, so lay the chickens round your lamb, and pour over the chickens a little white fricassy sauce.

  4. Her father had given her all the toys she wanted without stint; her mother and brothers had coddled her, particularly her mother.

  5. Most people did fairly well with their lives, whether coddled or deprived of opportunity.

  6. The maid returned to the sewing-room, while Florence coddled her companion and made much of her.

  7. You and Jones have coddled me long enough.

  8. Because his father wouldn't have it; he says a boy hadn't ought to be coddled so, because it keeps 'em from getting strong.

  9. Men of intellect who think of nobody but themselves, and who, provided that they are coddled and amused, show the most absolute indifference to everything else!

  10. The room was exquisitely done in pink and everywhere were evidences that the two lucky mortals who slumbered therein were coddled and pampered to the limit of modern luxury.

  11. They were about of an age, both unusually good looking and bearing themselves with that breezy, confident manner that is characteristic of young men who have been coddled in swan's-down all their lives.

  12. Who, beside his old negro housekeeper, ever petted and coddled him?

  13. Nothing is more discouraging to robust virtue than the criticisms of teachers of ethics, who live in coddled comfort, upon private means, and other people's ideas.

  14. She certainly coddled her husband less than the others; and, indeed, in her heart of hearts disapproved altogether of the coddling system.

  15. They could hardly tell their opinions to each other, but they understood one another, and between them they coddled their Prime Minister.

  16. It certainly was the case that among them they coddled the Prime Minister.

  17. I petted and coddled her for years and I alone made her what she was, so I shall not turn against her now.

  18. In this room Braden Thorpe had been coddled and scolded, in this room he had romped and studied—She opened her eyes quickly.

  19. Alick, of whom it was his strongly expressed opinion that the fellow should be turned out to rough it, and not coddled up and spoiled at home.

  20. No," said Philip, "I'll leave her to be coddled by no maid.

  21. She preferred that he should leave her by herself to be coddled by her maid, as Uncle John (vulgarly) said.

  22. We'll take her home to be coddled by her maid, and we'll go off, two wild young fellows, to the play by ourselves.

  23. Basting the meat continually with flour and water is a bad practice, as it gives it a coddled parboiled appearance, and diminishes the flavour.

  24. The housekeeper bore me off to bed, and coddled me with arrowroot or beef-tea or something, while at the same time she supervised the serving of a meal which was described to me afterwards in tantalising terms.

  25. I am doing nothing at the Bar, and I want to travel, proper travelling, where you are not coddled with railways and hotels.

  26. You people who have been coddled and petted must learn it, too; and for you it is harder to learn, but pleasanter in the learning, because you stand above the bare need of things, and have leisure for the adornments.

  27. Life had been too easy and sheltered; he had been coddled like a child; he had never roughed it except for his own pleasure.

  28. A prominent Pole told me two days ago that the peasants were coddled by Russia, whose motto in Poland was "divide et impera," and that they will violently resent being drafted into the Prussian army.

  29. He has not been coddled or spoiled and is far better fitted for the battle of life than most graduates of our colleges.

  30. Fennel sauce is good to eat with them, and also coddled gooseberries.

  31. The faithless husband and abandon'd wife, And Æson coddled to new light and life.

  32. It could be none to Webb, for old Red Cloud had ever been an enemy, even when bribed and petted and fed and coddled in his village on the Wakpa Schicha.

  33. Not from fear of consequences at the hands of his captors, for he well knows that, physically, he is infinitely better off when being coddled by Uncle Sam than when fighting in the field.

  34. For the next four days the examination dragged its weary course, and Rhoda was carefully nursed and coddled so as to be able to stand the strain.

  35. Prout laughed ironically as he repeated Sherard's words "coddled and petted!

  36. I know I have got a good man in you; but at the same time, God never intended these damned saucy niggers to be coddled and petted.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coddled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    baked; barbecued; coddled; curried; fired; fried; heated; hothouse; indulged; parboiled; roast; scalloped; seared; spoiled; stewed