cosset

Example Sentences

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Mr. Gilfix drew on his own experience to cosset Ms. Golosker, transforming her predicament into something very romantic, she said, as both were attuned to the fragility of life.

From New York Times • May 13, 2022

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

Let the new bourgeois tyrants cuddle and cosset the serpent that shall bite them, as did the salon ladies of the old regime.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper