Sentences with coax
coax
C c - After lunch, she watched, listened and coaxed Bobby into talking about himself. [VERB noun preposition]
- The WPC talked yesterday of her role in trying to coax vital information from the young victim. [V n + out of/from]
- They sat with me, patient and caring, in the small hours of the morning when I was trying to coax him back to sleep.
- I tried to coax the gentleman out of the cupboard.
- He would stride on stage then proceed to coax the sweetest possible sounds out of his violin. [VERB noun preposition]
- He coaxed the engine into starting
- It has taken time to coax visitors in numbers again to regional Victoria.
- To try to coax platypuses back to the dredged section of the river.
- He coaxed her to sing, but she refused.
- We coaxed the secret from him.
- Coax suggests repeated attempts to persuade someone to do something and implies the use of soothing words, an ingratiating manner, etc.; , cajole suggests the use of flattery or other blandishments; , wheedle implies even more strongly the use of subtle flattery or craftily artful behavior in gaining one's ends
- He coaxed the large chair through the door.
- She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
- Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.