Example Sentences

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The hope is that world leaders will cajole each other into doing more, while ensuring that poorer nations struggling to tackle climate change get the financial support they need.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 28, 2021

“They will cajole and wheedle and bring the whole group photo to a screeching halt until you finally, shamefully, admit that you can’t, that you don’t want a picture of you like this to exist.”

From BusinessWeek • Oct. 2, 2014

In response, Mr. Dearington will cajole panel members to say that no matter what incendiary facts they know of Mr. Hayes’s deeds, they can put aside their feelings and vote only on the evidence.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2010

He will cajole and wheedle in his sweetest Welsh tones until he gets O.K.s from departmental ministers.

From Time Magazine Archive

She is well nigh distracted at best, these days, what with the fickleness of her husband and the yet harder abandonment by her old admirer Pakenham; so Polk will cajole her into disclosures, never fear.

From 54-40 or Fight by Hough, Emerson