had coaxed
- past perfect of coax.
Example Sentences
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Gen. John Brennan emerged from the plane on Tuesday, he was greeted by an army composed of two rival Libyan factions the American officer had coaxed into holding their first ever joint military exercises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Arévalo, whose center-left party had coaxed him into running, had never had strong political aspirations and was polling badly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2023
"Cottage cheese," she quipped, stressing on the cheese, before she told me how she had coaxed the recipe out of a friend.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2023
Once, it may have been difficult to imagine that Mexico had coaxed Washington to adopt humanitarian and other improvements to benefit asylum seekers.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2021
I knew we didn’t—we’d taken on a big mortgage, he had some debts left over from a bad business deal his father had coaxed him into pursuing—1 just had to deal with it.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
