coax

Meg, a charity media officer, would prod him throughout the night and try to coax him from his back to his side.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

From the first hint of cold winter mornings, supermarkets and pharmacies begin heavy marketing to coax us to stock up on vitamin C to get through the cold and flu season.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

The day was in the low 70s, and a breeze was coming through our kitchen window; I decided I would not mind standing at the stove long enough to coax the squash toward sweet collapse.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

The new album appears designed to tease, coax and overwhelm the listener.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

I tried to coax it to come but it would not.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Thanks to cultivation techniques, the Huntington coaxes the plants to bloom every two to three years, not four to six like they do in their natural habitat, where they’re endangered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Allegra Goodman’s family saga coaxes, in Sam Sacks’s words, “excellent, bone-dry humor” out of the skirmishes and long-running battles among members of a loving, fractious clan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

That warming coaxes mosquitoes toward higher elevations, even as temperatures have historically been too cold for the insects to thrive.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2024

It’s not until Pointer coaxes her to take off her artificial leg, leaving her dependent on him, that her internal alarm bells start to go off.

From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2024

Felicia coaxes her young son to join her.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

The Loch Ness monster appeared on screen before being magically coaxed on to the stage by Outlander star Sam Heughan.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

She is standing in front of The Barefoot Contessa with her dark hair coaxed into perky curls, wearing a matching aubergine button-down and skirt.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026

The administration’s efforts to control Anthropic’s technology were spurred by an Amazon report finding that Fable could be coaxed into finding bugs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

They coaxed, cajoled, begged and beseeched for support to bring the tournament to North America.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

At last, just before darkness fell, Fiver re-crossed the bridge and coaxed them to follow him back.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

After some coaxing from family, Ramirez realized he was perfectly equipped to create mobile kitchens from scratch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

Great TV imbues its fiction with a soul, coaxing us to view fully crafted characters as beings of flesh and blood, or constructed unscripted scenarios as truth.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026

The woman crouches, coaxing the animal with sweet compliments and a stick of sugarcane she brought with her.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

Baschek said the whale's breathing and reaction to rescuers had deteriorated, and that the chances of coaxing him out of the bay were so slim it would be cruel to try.

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026

As always, she’s suspicious, but I’m able to convince her after some coaxing and whining.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez