Cajoling Sentence Examples

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  • This can range from "flashing" a stranger to cajoling a date into bed.

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  • He has sometimes been blamed for not crushing his incurably disloyal and rebellious nobles, instead of cajoling them, after the example of his contemporary, Louis XI., who laid the foundations of the greatness of France on the ruin of the vassals.

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  • In fact, the research seems pretty clear that it backfires; cajoling your kid to eat something actually makes her like it less.

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