cosset

Example Sentences

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In contrast, the high-ticket productions on Broadway more often than not aim to cosset.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2019

There are other reasons for governments to cosset the big four.

From The Guardian • May 29, 2018

She wonders if there was something in Farquharson, by contrast, that brought out “the maternal in women, our tendency to cosset, to infantilise.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2016

Supporters of scooters say they offer something extremely valuable - freedom, countering the perceived tendency of many risk-averse parents to cosset their children indoors.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2015

Years before his father had given him a cosset lamb, and now he was the owner of a dozen sheep.

From Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance by Coffin, Charles Carleton