Words similar to coax

Example sentences for: coax

How can you use “coax” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

If you need a "mission," as Arrigan says, you just do whatever you're already doing, as long as you can coax from it some movement of the soul.
So Bryant tries to coax Lewinsky, the best available eyewitness, to infer Clinton's motives based on their conversations.
The communities are all villages with sidewalked main streets containing rows of brick buildings: just what brave suburban reformers in the Sun Belt are struggling desperately to coax into existence.
We coax balking people like reluctant draft animals with carrot and stick , get them back into harness after a holiday, yoke them to co-workers like oxen, drive them hard as part of a team .
Cheaper still is most of Bowfinger , a one-joke movie that's like Ed Wood (1994) without the poetry or emotion that Tim Burton managed to coax out of re-creations of Grade Z genre flicks.