(v. t.) To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe.
(n.) A simpleton; a dupe.
Example Sentences:
(1) How did Panahi manage to coax a performance out of him?
(2) But then came a challenge I couldn't turn down – busking outside Camden tube station with Billy Bragg , one of my musical and political heroes, who was happy to tutor and coax me through our favourite playlist.
(3) Coaxing form from the forward is another of Sherwood's early achievements.
(4) Human interaction made captivity more tolerable, so she coaxed it out of her kidnappers where possible.
(5) Sneijder is the last man standing from the Inter side that José Mourinho coaxed to victory over Bayern Munich in Madrid, six days after wrapping up the Italian league title and 17 after their domestic cup win.
(6) Consumer confidence has bounced back; the long-moribund housing market has been coaxed back to life even outside the capital; and retail sales are rising, helped by all the carpets and kitchens homebuyers need to kit out their new nests.
(7) Mr Salmond and his deputy, Nicola Sturgeon, tried again early yesterday to coax the Lib Dems into accepting yet another olive branch: to put their intense disagreements on an independence referendum aside while trying to agree common ground on domestic policies.
(8) Getting someone to cut down their smoking or change their diet is by coaxing, negotiation.
(9) Goodes said it was the support of Swans fans that coaxed him into extending his club record games tally to 372.
(10) The judge, Faisal Arab, had been trying to coax Musharraf to voluntarily submit to appearing in court ever since the hearings began in late December.
(11) Some were fished out of the water with the help of holidaymakers from the campsite opposite who used their own boats; others were coaxed out of their hiding places on the island.
(12) However, he was less convinced by Ant's musical merits, and coaxed his band members into forming a new group, Bow Wow Wow, which would be led by a 13-year-old girl whom McLaren met at a dry cleaners and renamed Annabella Lwin.
(13) On the face of it, the decision to suspend talks is a blow to the US secretary of state, John Kerry , who has spent almost nine months trying to coax Israelis and Palestinians into an agreement about the conflict's most contentious issues.
(14) He coaxes Hicks into repeating what Colonel Gibson told Hicks about not being able to deploy from Tripoli to Benghazi.
(15) She would far prefer to use the collective voice of future Sandbag members to coax the big industrial polluters into handing over their surplus credits than have to rely on members to buy them.
(16) The same gift of the gab that a good hotel manager deploys to schmooze an irate guest complaining about draughts made the difference between life and death; he cajoled and coaxed, flattered and deceived, lied and bribed.
(17) A similar strategy has informed my translation; although my own part of England is separated from Lud's Church by the swollen uplands of the Peak District, coaxing Gawain and his poem back into the Pennines was always part of the plan.
(18) Truly, Brexit has stirred something not heroic or celebratory or generous in the nation, but instead has coaxed into the light from some dark, damp places the lowest human impulses, from the small-minded to the mean-spirited to the murderous.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gina Miller at the Convention on Brexit.
(19) So what Ed Miliband should do – rather than trying to coax employers into slowly but surely adopting the living wage (which by his own thesis, some businesses – the predators – may never do), he should cut to the chase and raise the minimum wage to the living wage, thus ensuring that no one in our society is paid a wage on which it is impossible to live.
(20) But organisers of Wednesday’s anti-Murphy meeting are canvassing support from constituency Labour parties in a bid to push Murphy into voluntarily standing down, and to coax other critics of his leadership at Holyrood into publicly calling for his resignation.
Ingle
Definition:
(n.) Flame; blaze; a fire; a fireplace.
(n.) A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart; an engle.
(v. t.) To cajole or coax; to wheedle. See Engle.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1.25pm: Hello again from Sean Ingle from Johannesburg.
(2) Sean Ingle Wimbledon No one has broken Roger Federer’s serve at these championships, let alone taken a set, and the appreciative midsummer murmurs from No1 Court as the seven-times Wimbledon champion elegantly dissected Tommy Robredo suggested they believe he retains the game to win a record eighth title.
(3) We have examined bromocriptine, levodopa and trihexyphenydil ins ingle-blind design in 16 chronic productive schizophrenics having the same degree of tardive dyskinesias.
(4) Brentford’s brave new world is already working in Denmark | Sean Ingle Read more Dijkhuizen, whose experience of British football extends to a 10-game loan spell at Dunfermline as a player in 2000-01, will work with the directors of football Rasmus Ankersen and Phil Giles.
(5) 4.53pm GMT Speaking of Shahid Khan ... ... My colleague Sean Ingle did a great interview with him this week , here.
(6) 11 key questions on the Fancy Bears Wada leaks | Sean Ingle Read more Wada’s general secretary, Olivier Niggli, said he had no doubt that the continuing attacks were being carried out in retaliation against the agency for having exposed state-sponsored doping in Russia.
(7) This regulation of RNA polymerase II activity occurred independently of that of RNA polymerase I and was similar to that observed previously in the alpha-amanitin-resistant rat myoblast mutant clone Ama102 (Somers, Pearson, and Ingles, 1975a).
(8) The changes in the content of pyridine nucleotide coenzymes (NAD+ and NADH) in several models of experimentally induced hypertension, differing in mechanism (genetic spontaneous hypertension, renal one kidney Goldblatt hypertension, Adrenal-regeneration hypertension after INGLE-HIGGINS and Skelton, and NaC1 hypertension) were studied.
(9) Premier League locked in to virtuous circle and likely to stay on its perch | Sean Ingle Read more The 20-year-old, who moved to the Stade Vélodrome last summer from Nantes for £1m, has attracted attention for his performances this season despite his club struggling in mid-table in Ligue 1.
(10) A former army colonel, Amadeo Martinez Ingles, based The Coup that Never Was on the prison confessions of two of its leaders, who said their mission had been to save the constitutional monarchy.
(11) How Russian athletics’ rotten system built a wall to conceal doping and deceit | Sean Ingle Read more “This whole case smells of a political hit job and nothing more,” Patsev said.
(12) We propose that the dorsal stream, as defined by Ungerleider and Mishkin (In: Ingle DJ, Goodale MA and Mansfield RJW (Editors), Analysis of Visual Behavior.
(13) Tyson Fury goads Wladimir Klitschko but champion drips with disdain | Sean Ingle Read more For good measure he added: “You are the wind beneath my wings.
(14) It’s out there – and I will get it.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Brook at the Ingle Gym in Woincobank, Sheffield.
(15) For example, a recent volume by Ingle et al., quite sound from the theoretical and practical point of view is already out of date with respect to hardware details.
(16) Sean Ingle will be back behind the steering wheel tomorrow and we're told his technical problems will be a thing of the past, so be sure to join him for all the news from 9am.
(17) It is a big issue, but there is a bigger opportunity for business to sort it out”, says its chair, Jean-Laurent Ingles, global SVP household care for Unilever.
(18) Leicester can be outflanked but few begrudge Foxes being ahead of pack | Sean Ingle Read more This is, with a couple of notable additions, the same Leicester side that at this stage of last season was languishing, seemingly doomed, at the bottom of the table.
(19) How Russian athletics’ rotten system built a wall to conceal doping and deceit | Sean Ingle Read more When Hajo Seppelt, the German journalist who brought the claims about Russian athletics to light, reported in the summer that the IAAF had failed to follow up on suspicious tests, Coe declared the allegations “a war on my sport”.
(20) Adrenal regeneration hypertension [ARH] was induced after Ingle and Higgins, and Skelton in 13 female Wistar rats one and a half months old with the purpose of studying the function of the renal and the brain renin-angiotensin systems in that model of hypertension, before and after treatment with antihypertensive prostaglandin EI [PGEI].