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How to use coaxing in a sentence

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If you saved a poinsettia from last year's holidays, October's the time to start coaxing it back into bloom.
Our French photographers swooped in, coaxing her into fun, flattering clothes and complimenting her in their soothing accents.
Finally, after ten minutes of coaxing, she got me to the doorstep of my house and hesitantly I pressed the doorbell.
It took very little coaxing to get Clyde to bring his dowsing rods to the next class.
If they are to be authors, shouldn't we be coaxing them towards the mainstream prizes rather than the ghetto-fabulous hit parade?
Sometimes, in calm seas, when the outboard stuttered and needed coaxing with frequent plug de-oilings, Angus would row the boat.
Jones proves to be a sympathetic director, coaxing Pepper to one of his most convincing performances as a callous, black-hearted wretch.
Under Rather's gentle coaxing, Southards described slaughtering Vietnamese civilians, making his work appear to be that of the North Vietnamese.
The charities are brutally businesslike in coaxing dollars from the wallets of the super-rich.
Today's shifting is nearly effortless thanks to precise spring-loaded mechanisms coaxing the chain from one gear to the next.
We finger-styled Tamara's hair fresh out of the shower, coaxing out the natural wave in her otherwise pin-straight hair.
Blanche wormed the details out of a very reluctant Stella with much coaxing and promising of new clothes.
Zeke brought his mouth to mine again, this time coaxing me to wrap him in an embrace.
To a Latin American, it might mean coaxing life from marginal soil that becomes more degraded with every planting.
For the moment he has been resisting the president's blandishments and coaxing on the war policy.
I occupied myself in coaxing a very cross fire to burn, which at last it did, quite brightly.
Despite the fact he was only thirteen, it seemed the young prince was already a Casanova in the making, an expert at coaxing and cajoling girls.
When that coaxing didn't work, he asserted his authority, made the most of his status and simply stomped his feet, demanding more.
Granted, they're probably concentrating on coaxing surrenders from conscript units on the front, but this is a task that cannot be ignored.
It was his father who saw his potential and started cajoling and coaxing him into playing.
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Examples from Classical Literature
While he was coaxing himself to knock on the pane, Stillman puttered about the shack, petting the dog, filling his pipe.
He had crouched over it for a half-hour, blowing it, coaxing it, wheedling it.
When she is coaxing her child to walk, she is not making a theoretic exposition of the science of equilibration.
It was a very lively march on account of the new elephants, who gave trouble at every ford, and needed coaxing or beating every other minute.
I think she must have had a kind of notion that it was a coaxing, wheedling little stool.
She stood ten minutes cajoling him, wheedling, coaxing, threatening.
A trail of coaxing calls and offers followed Florent as he passed along.
To the abuse in front and the coaxing behind she was equally indifferent.
While I sat there she was taking the girl's clothes off, perhaps coaxing her to do it.
This yokel from the woods and mountains needed a little coaxing.
Uncle Remus was in such good humor that he needed no coaxing.
It was like a child, frightened into slyness, coaxing its mother.
The Aussies are taking so much stick Down Under there is talk of coaxing Shane Warne out of retirement to play some part in the Ashes.
And so, by dint of alternate coaxing and commanding, he contrived to get them all once more enclosed in their separate dormitories.
But I believe she must inwardly have delighted in the tremors into which she threw me by the coaxing way in which she patted my curls, while she laughed at my quotations.
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