spoon-feed

Example Sentences

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As usual, Wiseman doesn’t spoon-feed us details of who’s who and where’s where; he trusts us to get our bearings over an effortlessly engrossing four hours.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2023

He was not going to spoon-feed that to us.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2023

"I wanted someone to spoon-feed me information in a format that was easy."

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2021

Drivers can’t spoon-feed babies in a car seat, but they can hand them a tube of banana puffs and let them feed themselves.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019

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