coax
verb (used with object)
to influence or persuade to do something by gentle urging, smooth talk, flattery, etc..
had been coaxing
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past perfect progressiveof coax.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Why, if I had been coaxing you for a year to give me something, and you had steadily refused, but if suddenly you had said to me, 'Yes.
From Four Girls at Chautauqua by Pansy
I had been coaxing her half the morning, and she had promised me to say nothing.
From Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
She had been coaxing Lisbeth to go home.
From The Torch Bearer by Reina Melcher Marquis
She had been coaxing him to say Henrietta was the prettiest girl he ever saw, and he was teasing her by declaring he should never see anything like Aunt Mary in her girlish days.
From Henrietta's Wish Or, Domineering by Charlotte Mary Yonge
I suspect him of letting out his belt a hole a day on this plethora of protein that I had been coaxing up the bean poles all the spring.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Winthrop Packard
