Example sentences for: coddling

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

  • It is a campaign, after all, in which the challenger's slogan is "Too many lies for too long," where each candidate blithely runs ads accusing his opponent of coddling child pornographers, and where virtually the only intelligible sentences of the so-called debates were "Stop being rude!"

  • As the other candidates took potshots at the leader of the pack for (according to them) coddling China, wanting to federalize education policy, equivocating on abortion, and endangering Social Security with a huge tax cut, Bush ducked, smiled and declined to take the charges entirely seriously.

  • In one speech, Clinton charged Bush with "coddling aging rulers with undisguised contempt for democracy, for human rights."

  • He was appalled by the way federal courts were intervening in state and local governance, coddling criminals, and expanding individual rights.

  • The GOP was gearing up to criticize Clinton for coddling dictators, but the Kosovo bombing short-circuited this argument.


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