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"Coax" in a Sentence (18 examples)
It still amazes me what she could coax out of table scraps.
It had seemed to me sometimes that she liked to be alone with me, or to coax me out for a walk with her, but I had never thought anything of that.
The cork is jammed into the neck pretty bad. If you have a knife with a really thin blade, I might be able to coax it out.
Yanni tried to coax Skura into sending him money.
Lounes Matoub said a lot of things, if we listened to him. Judge of it: “The paths obstructed, we will clear them; the crooked people, we will coax them; the weary country, we will free it from its yoke; the wicked who overwhelms us will weep on that day." May he rest in peace.
She’ll do it if you coax her.
Anna cautiously tried to coax the grasshopper toward the open window.
I don't want to coax you out with kind words.
A plan was devised to coax him out of hiding.
Maskwa managed to coax the little girl out of the colonizer's hands.
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She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift On paper, Continental Drift boasts a jaw-dropping voice cast, including but not limited to Jennifer Lopez, Patrick Stewart, Wanda Sykes, Aziz Ansari, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Nicki Minaj, Drake, and Alan Tudyk. But in practice, the overstuffed ensemble leaves the cast no room to distinguish themselves, and directors Steve Martino and Michael Thurmeier don’t seem interested in coaxing performances that might render their money stars less identifiable.
He coaxed the horse gently into the trailer.
They coaxed the rope through the pipe.
I've finally coaxed the sticky drawers open.
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.
When the occupant of one of these floating dwellings wishes to move, […] he calls to his aid a number of muscular friends and relatives, and then, with the aid of great shovel-shaped paddles, they coax the home away to its new locality.
Go, you're a brainless Coax, a Toy, a Fop, I'll go no farther than your Name, Sir Gregory
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