Sentence examples for be babied from inspiring English sources

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be babied

verb

To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant.

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"They have to be babied.

But should punters be babied in this way?

He was a coccolone — someone who likes to be babied — and very tight.

They shouldn't be forced into assisted living, where they'd be babied and patronized by aides.

She repeatedly tells her friends that she's too long played the peacemaker and the caretaker, and she needs now to be babied herself.

He said CUNY's chancellor, Dr. Goldstein, had the "best intentions to increase the standards for the City University of New York," but added that in setting up a program for black men, he was sending them a message that they could not do the work other students could "and that they have to be babied".

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He had been complaining of being babied.

She is baby-sitting.

"We are baby-sitting a civil war".

"We've been babying him.

Vincent may not be baby sitter material.

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