coddle
verb (used with object)
to treat tenderly; nurse or tend indulgently; pamper.
was coddling
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past progressiveof coddle.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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At home, American Jewish spokesmen continued to charge that Carter was coddling the Arabs.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were critical grumblings that the Sudanese government was coddling him: Ali Kushayb had been detained before but had been released for lack of evidence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Franco's needlers were Roman Catholics who claimed that he was coddling Protestants.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was also a considerable pacifist element in our country which Germany was coddling in the hope of preventing the United States from using against her such forces as we already had at hand.
From The Victory At Sea by Burton J. Hendrick
She was coddling a photograph of Jim Dyckman.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
