| Like people, leeches do not always draw blood first time, and some have to be coaxed into biting. |
| Obree didn't medal, and had to be coaxed from a fifth-floor window sill by a teammate. |
| He had deliberately provoked her, coaxed her into giving him the painful death he had coveted. |
| The betel vine grows well in marshy lands, with good rainfall but can be coaxed into growing in drier climes with profuse watering. |
| Physicists have coaxed a few atoms into exotic states that fit the bill, but they didn't make much of a computer. |
| Today, on his third visit, Jason coaxed her to stand upright unaided from her wheelchair. |
