coaxed

Example Sentences

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The whale was coaxed into the water-filled barge on Tuesday, in a mission funded by two German entrepreneurs.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

She’s hauled pigs down apartment stairwells and coaxed them into crates for transport.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

Once you know the order of operations, once you trust time and salt to do their quiet work, almost anything can be coaxed into a satisfying bowl.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026

Vivid examples are the Southeast Asian “pig-butchering External link” scams, in which victims are coaxed into investing in fake crypto platforms.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

The very company of planes from their own regiment cheered them up as they coaxed their unreliable Po-2 homeward.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein