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Example sentences for: cajole

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As he tries vainly to cajole the marshal, another newspaper reporter gloats, "He's totally screwed."
His childhood on his family's sylvan 3,500 acre estate in Pocantico Hills, N.Y., was one of almost unimaginable privilege, yet from the beginning he felt compelled to flatter, cajole, and even engage in abject self-criticism if that's what it took to get his way, particularly with his puritanical and disapproving father.
Prince Henry — made governor of the Algarve in 1418 — had the money, influence, enthusiasm, and vision to lead and cajole the best astronomers, cartographers, boat-designers, and seamen of the day to expand Portugal’s maritime horizons.
She prompts the island's Princess Nausicaa to cajole her father into letting her drive a year's worth of dirty clothes all the way down to the water's edge in a big ox-drawn wagon, to spend the day with her maids washing and drying them on the beach, right where Athena knew she would find the shipwrecked Odysseus.
It is the way reporters operate: We threaten, we cajole, we feign sympathy.