Sentence examples for everything to coax from inspiring English sources

No wonder some of the pizza-obsessed do everything to coax their ovens into performing above their limits.

"We've tried everything to coax these communities to the altar," said Mr. Gusciora, who sponsored the bill on the so-called doughnut hole communities.

Mourinho has tried everything to coax Hazard back to his best form, from the carrot to the stick to tactical tweaks.

He tried everything to coax that kid's stubborn molar out of its socket, and finally he had to call over another dentist, and together they pulled out a long bloody scimitar of a six.

My father and stepmother tried everything to coax him to come out.

(Here in America, such conflicts get blurred by the liberal anxiety of our institutions to coax everything into melting-pot amity).

The Italians did everything in their power to coax Bennett into firing the starting gun, hoisting their mainsail and genoa, going back and forth in front of the committee boat at better than 8 knots while the Kiwis -- clearly content to call it a day -- glided along lazily under their main alone.

Driven to whisk everything unsightly away, she also, like an underappreciated magician, had to coax applause by demonstrating how the trick was done.

The success of the show has everything to do with its perceptive, prickly host and his ability to coax surprisingly revealing things from his guests.

Then there was the housemate who labeled everything that was his, and another who practiced what she called a "polite hovering technique" at dinnertime, to coax a frequent usurper of the stove to hurry.

Fleech: to coax, wheedle, flatter.