Example Sentences

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So now Washington is spoon-feeding him innings, feeling that’s better than giving him five- or six-inning starts only to shut him down in August.

From Washington Post • May 31, 2022

And most fragile and compelling of all: sitting in a high chair and wearing a nightdress, a monkey reaches out its hand to grasp the arm of the otherwise unseen person who is spoon-feeding it.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 27, 2019

Her acting, in keeping with this wide-eyed wonder, is not performance so much as prayer: it’s as though someone is spoon-feeding her revelations before each take.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2014