Sentence example with the word 'wheedle'

wheedle

adulate, besiege, bug, coax, exert pressure, importune, make fair weather, pester, press, soft-soap

Definition v. influence or urge by gentle urging

Last update: October 23, 2017


1

My daughter will pretend to cry if she thinks it will allow her to wheedle out of a consequence.   [verb]

1

Phil will sometimes flatter his mother to great extent in his effort to wheedle money out of her.    [verb]

1

"If you come not and get it," he wheedled, "I will throw it in the water."   [Please select]

0

Cuittle, to wheedle, to curry favour.   [verb]

0

I wheedled an old woman out of these, who loved them better than her psalm-book.   [verb]

0

Must wheedle her way along.   [verb]

0

Go try to wheedle the officer at the Porte Neuve.   [Please select]

0

"Was he tryin' to wheedle you into marryin' him."   [Please select]

0

By God, I'll not be frightened or wheedled out of mine.'   [Please select]

0

"I say, mister," she wheedled, "let's stop at the cawfee-stand."   [Please select]

0

Teague coaxed, and wheedled, and threatened, and Puss cried and quarrelled; but Sis was obdurate.   [Please select]

Do you have a better example in your mind? Please submit your sentence!

Submit
wheats - wheedle - wheedled