wheedled
Example Sentences
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Ask any nerd who wheedled her parents for a little more cash to buy books: What you get from Scholastic is what your parents are willing to buy you.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2023
The part of Orlean who, as a child, wheedled her pet-averse mother into adopting a dog is never too distant from the scrutinizing reporter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2021
And so, in a Rite Aid staff bathroom I’d wheedled my way into by citing my pregnancy, I discovered that my trickle of blood had turned into a torrent.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2020
It’s a fascinating vignette, but we never learn her real name, or what happened to her, or how she wheedled those secrets from Nazi submariners, or how useful her intel proved to Alliance and MI6.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2019
Grace wheedled, winding a rubber band around the end of the braid.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
