Example Sentences

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Earlier that day, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected Mr. Trump’s accusation that Beijing had coddled North Korea.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2017

During the sentencing phase of his trial, a defense expert argued that Couch’s wealthy parents had coddled him into a sense of irresponsibility - a condition the expert termed “affluenza.”

From Washington Times • Jan. 1, 2016

Friends of the Board of Trustees said that strongwilled, patrician Dr. Gordon had failed to "cooperate," that he had coddled rich students, snubbed and tyrannized others.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had coddled thirty-five grand-children there, and given instruction to some half-dozen daughters-in-law.

From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold

So she had coddled and fondled him, gaining his confidence day by day and talking to him by the hour of whatever was uppermost in her mind.

From Tides of Barnegat by Smith, Francis Hopkinson