spoon-fed
Example Sentences
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He believes viewers should be active participants and not just have everything spoon-fed to them.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2024
At a scoop shop in downtown Manhattan, a large white poodle was spoon-fed what appeared to be vanilla ice cream.
From New York Times • May 16, 2024
Other images include Susan being spoon-fed by her young granddaughter and her lying on her bed having forgotten how to dress herself.
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2024
Klein confesses that it sometimes felt as if Wolf had fed Klein's ideas into a "bonkers blender" and then spoon-fed the resulting incoherent mishmash directly to Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon.
From Salon • Sep. 14, 2023
The man spoon-fed me broth with sweet corn mush until the fist unclenched just enough for me to rest, then he put it beside me on a flat rock.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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