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How to use coax in a sentence

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The darkened arched doorway yawned to her left and began to coax her in, tugging at her curiosity.
Finally, they were able to coax him out of bed with the promise of a never-ending pot of coffee and donut holes.
Director Stephen Daldry's experience in the theatre enables him to coax extraordinary performances from a stellar cast.
With shaking hands you gather twigs and sticks from the firewood basket and coax the last embers of the fire to wake up too.
There is much singing and dancing to help coax the spirit into the other world.
Still not fazed by her somewhat modest enthusiasm, I tried to coax a more spirited response outta her.
Other substituents coax beta-peptides into antiparallel hairpin and sheetlike structures.
Jarrod's a big fella, well over 6 feet, with hands the size of tree stumps, but still able to coax sweet sounds from a guitar.
He kept on trying to coax her to walk into the water, but she adamantly shook her head.
I had to go down and personally coax him out of the car so that we could get him back here.
You might see a fairly significant change if you could coax him into going for a 30 minute walk most days of the week.
He sharply criticizes the leader for using food aid as a diplomatic tool to coax concessions from rogue governments.
If he can coax some defectors from the opposition, he may reach a majority.
Use a metal pastry scraper to coax the dough into shape, and a minimal sprinkling of flour, as necessary.
It is a special puzzle challenge to coax these sets into a symmetrical shape.
The birds are in the trees, and if I could coax them down to my shoulder, then my trek may be warranted.
She shook her unruly mane of red hair, attempting and failing to coax it into some semblance of order.
Few of us have a team of trained hair professionals to dry, set, curl and coax our hair into perfection every morning.
After all, you can't lay fiber, buy cable modems and pay for cable TV with surplus coax.
Yes, if I were a nesting bird, I'd find a coil of coax to be the perfect shape for a nest.
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Yates gathered some fuel, and managed to coax the dying embers into a blaze.
No matter how he might coax and try to make her smile, she would return no answer.
There was none could coax a trout from a glass-clear pool with a dry fly like Alan Campbell.
She could coax you to the buying like a Cumnock quean, and fleece you in the selling like the cadgers o' Kincardine.
At that date it was no little matter to coax him round to unchain his vessel.
For instance, with a palette knife it is possible to coax refractory substances from the corners and edges of pans.
Dulce grew frightened at last, and tried to coax her cousin away.
However little there is to eat, he always saves a bit o' his bread to coax his pets.
Then Harry clucked his tongue against his palate to coax him to go.
They knew all the secrets of the ogress, and how to wheedle and coax her.
As for her tryin' to coax him to leave her money, that's just rubbish.
Lady Carwitchet was in ecstasies and tried to coax me into joining.
The doctors said we must take the child away, if we would coax her back to health and strength again.
Next day we sighted four swordfish and tried in vain to coax one to bite.
Even now he sometimes starts out of his sleep in a sudden way and awakes all trembling until I can coax him back to his usual placidity.
The little monkey had crept by the skylight of one garret, along the roof, into the skylight of the other, and it was with the utmost difficulty I could coax her out again.
Despite such knowledge, executives in most other automobile companies cannot coax or cajole their plants to implement these methods as effectively as Toyota does.
Supply and install coax ice bridge from water tower to facility.
Truffles belong to a maddening group of fungi that live only as partners to other plants, and scientists have yet to coax the spores to germinate in laboratory cultures.
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