sweet talk

Really, what writer, no matter how detached from their past, could resist that kind of sweet talk?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

It’s a central theme in my book to help clarify that no amount of sweet talk can replace the inevitable loss, the inherent loss, that is adoption.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

“We need the White House, and we need the ones on the front line not to be affected by sweet talk, particularly from the Europeans,” Mr. Goncalves said.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2021

They can sweet talk you, and then you're backsliding.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2019

Still, it wasn’t all sweet talk with her.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

Here, immigrants yell out their menus and sweet-talk potential customers as they stroll by.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2025

Trane knew how to walk the listener to the edge of extended possibility, to peer down into the existential void, and then sweet-talk the listener to a sanctuary of the hour.

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

I sweet-talk the program aide into making me copies for my next group.

From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023

He's been a constant presence to chivvy team-mates and sweet-talk officials.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2022

That little girl could sweet-talk anyone into doing anything.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

We witness McFadin as he smilingly interrogates—and intimidates—witnesses and plaintiffs, beguiles juries and sweet-talks judges, knocking down charges against Kenrex as if bowling strike after strike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

In one scene, a cop pulls over Jones and Murray, who sweet-talks him out of issuing a ticket.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2020

He exudes a quiet, shy aura, and rarely sweet-talks his clients.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2019

Tan, the style guide, sweet-talks skittish men into embracing pops of color and patterned shirts.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2018

Pa says when someone sweet-talks you like this, you got to be real careful with the next words that come out of their mouth.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has sweet-talked her U.S. counterpart and accommodated his priorities from drugs to trade.

From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025

The president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner helped move the deal to conclusion while Mr. Trump cajoled, twisted arms and, when necessary, sweet-talked friends and foes alike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

He kept Ali out of prison, got him a fight in Canada and sweet-talked a few other venues into staging Ali fights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025

She sweet-talked her way to the front of the airport security line when she was late for a flight.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023

Shackleton sweet-talked wealthy patrons, took public donations, and raised money as an advance based on future sales of film and photo rights.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

The sweet-talking civilians don’t have weapons or control over the nuclear program, but the others do.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

The seasoned ones know all the shortcuts to get around the course and are particularly adept at sweet-talking patrons to move over just a smidge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

In the flurry of negotiations and sweet-talking by multiple teams that greeted him on the first frantic day of NFL free agency, Dre’Mont Jones was not expecting the Seahawks to be a factor.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023

She led the campaign to raise $208 million to build a new one, donating $10 million herself and sweet-talking or strong-arming the balance through her deep connections to Northern California’s aristocrats.

From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2016

He says the sweet-talking is like a rattling-snake’s rattles, it’s like you’re getting a warning that you’re ’bout to get bit.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis