Sentence examples for coax from inspiring English sources

To be a rackler, you had to put a tiny bird in a cage, and then coax it to sing.

"We did it by laying trails of peanuts to coax them to move out to new setts.

Nicola Sturgeon has been challenged over the affordability of hefty spending pledges after she launched an explicit bid to coax Labour into an anti-Tory alliance at Westminster.

(Alas, determined attempts to coax the sprinter into a kilt over the course of his week in Scotland had been frustrated).

Most of the best players have recently been off-loaded in a tacit acceptance that budgets will need to be trimmed next season, and Mackay is struggling to coax performances out of the players he has left.

If Australia keep up this form, coax more incisiveness out of Nathan Lyon and find a long-term solution to how their pace bowling attack should cope in the periods when Johnson strays, it is hard to see how any side will stop them reclaiming the top spot in the world.

But by that Thursday, nearly everyone had become caught up in the frenzied prospect of World Cup glory, and now, with the ushers trying to coax the audience to take their seats, and with the cast and crew huddled round a portable TV in the dressing room, a place in the final was a mere 90 minutes away.

Solid performances from some extremely talented actors can't coax this wilted blossom back to life.

The undertaker was required to coax a decision from them about the present, the casket – despite their decades old feuds.

Banco do Brasil's Mr Silva is moving some staff in front of the counter to coax technology-shy clients to try the machines.There is also a search on for other distribution channels.

Another formidable obstacle in the way of the French efforts to coax Syria into co-operation is the likely reaction of Iran and Hizbullah, neither of which are beholden to instructions from Damascus.