cosset
verb (used with object)
cosseting
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present participleof cosset.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Catherine essentially becomes a character in a Sofia Coppola movie who grows increasingly trapped and anguished in proportion to her cosseting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Her wide, defiantly plain face and unruly emotionalism seemed to reject the cosseting, glamorizing gaze of Hollywood cameras.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2020
As she approached adolescence, her mother’s obsessive cosseting only became more pronounced.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 1, 2016
Experienced for the first time, this covert cosseting feels slightly melancholy, like an episode of Cold War fiction involving futile charades and a likely defenestration.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 5, 2016
In forty-eight hours, even, of comfort and cosseting her elfish thinness had become a shade less ghastly; and the self-possession which had emerged from the state of collapse in which she had arrived amazed Victoria.
From The Mating of Lydia by Mrs. Humphry Ward
