coaxes
- present tense form of coax (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Allegra Goodman’s family saga coaxes, in Sam Sacks’s words, “excellent, bone-dry humor” out of the skirmishes and long-running battles among members of a loving, fractious clan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
That warming coaxes mosquitoes toward higher elevations, even as temperatures have historically been too cold for the insects to thrive.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2024
Aparicio coaxes cultural histories from his rubber casts of trees and meandering flows of poured amber.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2024
It’s not until Pointer coaxes her to take off her artificial leg, leaving her dependent on him, that her internal alarm bells start to go off.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2024
Finally Madame Manec coaxes them out of the kennel, and Crazy Hubert leads Marie-Laure back through the gate and locks it behind them.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
