is coaxing
- present progressive of coax (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Now, Stokes is coaxing the best out of Foakes, Leach, Ben Duckett and Harry Brook, the latter a newcomer to Test cricket but seemingly on track to be a superstar.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2023
With gestures like making one of the husbands, David, a stay-at-home father, she is coaxing out feminist elements always latent in “Company” — most powerfully in Joanne’s exhortation to anesthetized housewives: “Everybody rise!”
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2018
Macron is coaxing Trump toward a very big idea.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2018
And key to that is coaxing “Dear Evan Hansen” out into the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2016
Then he fixed his mind solely on his swimming, counting one stroke after another, like a man who is coaxing sleep.
From The Stolen Singer by Bellinger, Martha Idell Fletcher
