Example Sentences

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It came to him, as if he were coaxing it out of the soil.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2020

They were coaxing her to just plead guilty to the charges.

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2019

Here in Paris, there is a special mothering comfort, delight, and fulfillment for me, as if the real mother, with her mother tongue and mother heart, were coaxing me forward.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 2, 2016

The Wright brothers were coaxing their first plane into brief and tentative flights over the sand dunes at Kitty Hawk.

From Time Magazine Archive

I hold it out to her, the way I would if I were coaxing a horse with sugar.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black