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Coaxing in sentence

18 examples of Coaxing in a sentence

Coaxing his father from exile, Shi Lin took him to visit the Lei Feng Pagoda to pay respects to his mother.
The rest of the film consists of the father coaxing his daughter down the stairs on the telephone.
At the news, he quietly but icily threatens his coaxing bank manager of wanting to close down his account.
Finally, after hours of coaxing from my sister, I finally went to see the movie.
"?" opts for a deadpan humor, coaxing us to laugh at these pathetic people not out of affection or understanding, but rather simply as a response to life as they see it.
Clinton herself was instrumental in coaxing a hesitant President Barack Obama to back military action to depose Qaddafi in Libya.
But they should realize that large foreign shareholders in financial firms may be far less effective than locals in coaxing central banks to extend massive, no-strings-attached credit lines.
Negotiating these rules without China’s participation can be viewed as part of a strategy aimed at eventually coaxing China into a liberal global system.
Indeed, Franco Modigliani also argued that investors have a “preferred habitat,” and that coaxing them out of it carries some cost.
He inquired after her health, gave her news, exhorted her to religion, in a coaxing little prattle that was not without its charm.
'To make a round sum, a rich and generous gentleman like our Mayor,' the peasant insinuated in a coaxing voice, 'will surely go as far as thirty-six.''All right,' said M. de Renal, 'but let us have no more of this.'
'With what a contrite and coaxing air he uttered the verdict that involved the death penalty!
I was as a brother to her, and no more: though there were times when I had to put a hard curb upon myself; for even now she would come to me with her coaxing ways, and with tales about how rough Jim was, and how happy she had been when I was kind to her; for it was in her blood to speak like that, and she could not help it.
Mr. Pickwick's nature was a good deal worked upon, by these same tears; but when Mrs. Winkle, drying her eyes, took to coaxing and entreating in the sweetest tones of a very sweet voice, he became particularly restless, and evidently undecided how to act, as was evinced by sundry nervous rubbings of his spectacle- glasses, nose, tights, head, and gaiters.
my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened you, my dear young lady?'"But his voice was just a little too coaxing.
One afternoon when he had spent some time in coaxing the child away, and had finally resorted to force, much to the child's disgust, a twelve-foot balk of teak-wood, as he was passing out under an arch in process of repair, crashed down from the scaffolding just in front of Fibby's nose.
'Poor little thing!' said Alice, in a coaxing tone, and she tried hard to whistle to it; but she was terribly frightened all the time at the thought that it might be hungry, in which case it would be very likely to eat her up in spite of all her coaxing.
And from the kitchen we listened to the peasant-women's talk, curious to hear all their stories ...But in the evening, after eight o'clock, when we went out with lanterns to take hay to the horses whose reeking skins filled the stables with steam, the whole of the shop belonged to us!Marie-Louise, the eldest of my cousins, though one of the smallest, was still in the shop, folding and putting away rolls of cloth and coaxing us to come and cheer her up.