Example Sentences

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His passion for her grows to such a pitch that he starts bounding up stairs instead of crawling over them like a mollycoddled toddler.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2024

I went from my parents’ mollycoddled child to an adult that had to do their own laundry.

From The Verge • Aug. 8, 2022

“I don’t think we can be mollycoddled to live in a bubble the whole time.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2021

One of the great things about being in a group is also the worst thing about being in a group: You’re very mollycoddled, you’re encouraged to escape reality.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2017

Siwash College, the pride of six decades, mollycoddled by an old parody on a gorilla with a grouch against the solar system!

From At Good Old Siwash by Fitch, George