had cajoled
- past perfect of cajole.
Example Sentences
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Reporters at Trudeau’s Saturday press conference, including from the New York Times, thought Trudeau went out of his way to be emollient about Trump, content he had cajoled Trump into signing the joint communique.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2018
It seemed that she and her co-authors had cajoled the data in the usual ways, by excluding certain information when it seemed useful or convenient—a process known as p-hacking.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2017
Asked if he had cajoled the accommodating Scully to record anything else, he admitted that he had: Scully read off the label of an aspirin bottle.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2016
This was the third summer Kaia had cajoled friends from across Norway to Lofoten -- akin, perhaps, to persuading your East Coast college friends to visit you in small-town Montana.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2012
In the concessions area at Ellis Island, Lefty had cajoled Desdemona to step into a tent run by the YWCA.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
