Sentence examples for could not coax from inspiring English sources

Rafael Benítez could not coax displays this menacing from his ­compatriot during last season's interim spell in charge.

"For the more mortal among us," Schiff observes, "there is cold comfort in the idea that even Nabokov could not coax two entire vocabularies out of reckless passion".

But Mr. Davies called it off, at least temporarily, when he could not coax a second major advertiser into making "a quasicommitment" a firm one.

France did have its chances, but David Trezeguet and Thierry Henry could not coax the ball into the net after they nicked the post and the crossbar.

He saw himself playing in the N.B.A. for at least 10 years, but he could not coax more than three seasons out of his body.

According to a person familiar with Grant's plans, the 28-year-old forward will fly to New York this week to visit with the Knicks, something that they could not coax Grant Hill or Tim Duncan to do.

Leafs Coach Ron Wilson juggled his forward lines for the first time but couldn't coax much out of them.

Working in finance so charred his soul that he couldn't coax a suicidal brother back from the brink.

Vacationing in Mexico, Ben and I couldn't coax Bob into the water, into a kayak or to any restaurant he couldn't reach on foot.

Even Jefferson would be proud — the third president succeeded at nearly everything, but he couldn't coax a decent wine out of Virginia's soil.

CITY OF LOST GIRLS (Morrow/­HarperCollins, $24.99) is burdened with a serial killer who couldn't coax a victim into his car if he had a three-ring circus in the back seat.