spoon-feed
Example Sentences
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“One day, Demi came in with this idea like, ‘I can’t spoon-feed you anymore.’
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2022
"I wanted someone to spoon-feed me information in a format that was easy."
From BBC • Nov. 17, 2021
Her Little Sisters of the Sick Poor are prime examples, as the name suggests: They spoon-feed the toothless, comfort the grieving, scrub floors, clean wounds, change diapers, empty bedpans.
From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2021
By plastering the walls with imagery as grandiose as Westminster Abbey and as mundane as fading green wallpaper, these projections spoon-feed scene setting that should be left to the set design and audiences’ imaginations.
From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2020
Better let them go to hell in their own way than attempt to spoon-feed them.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John
