Example Sentences

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Since the moment school let out, they had been wheedling and prodding for stories about their mother.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

Some such demon as, whispering in the ear of Visto, bade him 'Have a taste!' had been wheedling George in.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Cook, Dutton