Coaxing Definition

Coaxing Sentence Examples

• They danced over the keys, coaxing beautiful sound from each one.

• Retiring Sheriff Jake Weller was coaxing him over for a roadside chat.

• It is amusing to observe the extreme care and deliberation with which the bird draws the worm from its hidingplace, coaxing it out as it were by degrees, instead of pulling roughly or breaking it.

• This arouses his spirit of contradiction; and he tells them that they might have won it from him by coaxing, but never by threats, and that he values his life no more than the stone he tosses away as he speaks to them.

• His voice was gentle, coaxing.