coaxings

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How to use coaxings in a sentence

  • The cooks are in a very bad temper because the haricot beans, defying all efforts and coaxings, remain obdurately hard.

  • All the adored Mistress' coaxings and pettings could not rouse Lad from his dull apathy of despair.

    Lad: A Dog | Albert Payson Terhune
  • But the child ran away, despite his mother's coaxings, and refused to divulge his place of hiding.

    The Kingdom Round the Corner | Coningsby Dawson
  • So Betty ran swiftly away while the other scouts resumed their coaxings to draw Jake away from the log.

    Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks | Lillian Elizabeth Roy
  • But useless are your coaxings, solicitations, wavings of honest right hands.

    Prose Idylls | Charles Kingsley

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