Example Sentences

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New York police have been coddling teamsters long enough by closing too many an eye in violation cases.

From Time Magazine Archive

"They should have been coddling Jeffords, not punishing him," one says.

From Time Magazine Archive

We had four 306 sons, and they have nine sons among them, and all of the nine are now fighting the vipers they have been coddling for forty or fifty years.

From An Orkney Maid by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston