Cajole

//kəˈd͡ʒoʊl//

"Cajole" in a Sentence (11 examples)

Jimmy tried to cajole his parents into letting him drive across the country with his friends.

I saw the sudden change on the broad's face as she realized that she wouldn't be able to cajole the ticket collector into letting her make it off without any fine.

He tried to cajole me into buying a candy bar for him.

Then he Cajol'd vvith his Brother, and perſvvaded him vvhat Service he had done him, […]

If you are cajoled by the cunning arguments of a trumpeter of heresy, or the praises of a puritanic old woman, is not that womanish?

He had tried bullying, and without success. He would try cajoling and temptation.

[W]ith eloquent arts he had cajoled a young girl into a secret marriage.

Schulman, general manager of the "G. F. C.," had been sending out messengers to hunt for him, and finally had got him in his office, arguing and pleading, cajoling and denouncing him by turns.

For weeks, the White House, the Pentagon and Senate Democrats have been working overtime to cajole, convince and placate Republicans.

But the wife was visibly unimpressed by Ms. Baskin’s half-furnished home (they had just moved in) and thrown-together spaghetti dinner. “It was basically clear that his wife had been cajoled into attending,” said Ms. Baskin, 33. “She settled on to our rickety Ikea kitchen chairs like she was lowering herself into a coal mine.”

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At President Donald Trump’s cajoling, the [Texas] map [for congressional seats] was adopted with the goal of improving the odds that Republicans would gain five more seats in next year’s midterms than they would have if Texas kept the map used since the 2020 census.

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