Use of the word wheedle in a sentence example

wheedle

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My daughter will pretend to cry if she thinks it will allow her to wheedle out of a consequence. [verb]

Phil will sometimes flatter his mother to great extent in his effort to wheedle money out of her. [verb]

"If you come not and get it," he wheedled, "I will throw it in the water." [Please select]

Cuittle, to wheedle, to curry favour. [verb]

I wheedled an old woman out of these, who loved them better than her psalm-book. [verb]

Must wheedle her way along. [verb]

Go try to wheedle the officer at the Porte Neuve. [Please select]

"Was he tryin' to wheedle you into marryin' him." [Please select]

By God, I'll not be frightened or wheedled out of mine.' [Please select]

"I say, mister," she wheedled, "let's stop at the cawfee-stand." [Please select]

Teague coaxed, and wheedled, and threatened, and Puss cried and quarrelled; but Sis was obdurate. [Please select]

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