coax
verb (used with object)
to influence or persuade to do something by gentle urging, smooth talk, flattery, etc..
Example Sentences
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Young Bob coaxingly assisted his blind father and 13-year-old sister to pack their bag & baggage, got a berth on a West African ship and sailed down to the Gold Coast.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a coaxingly worded invitation, Nasser urged Iraq's President Abdul Salam Aref to visit Cairo "to see personally how much the Egyptian people like you and their Iraqi brothers."
From Time Magazine Archive
The only words are the title, called out coaxingly, then petulantly, then desperately, and always answered with comic effect by a chime.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many shunned him; a few nodded, and handed him their weapons; he rubbed the unguent on the stock and muzzle, all the while whispering to the firearm coaxingly in some unknown tongue.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
At first the fire in the birch-bark roll refused to wake up, even when he blew on it coaxingly, and Renn fed it morsels of tinder warmed in her hands.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
