cosset

Example Sentences

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Like the best of children’s literature, then and now, “Treasure Island” looks to lure its young readers into the adult world, not to cosset them from it.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2020

There are other reasons for governments to cosset the big four.

From The Guardian • May 29, 2018

She wonders if there was something in Farquharson, by contrast, that brought out “the maternal in women, our tendency to cosset, to infantilise.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2016

Supporters of scooters say they offer something extremely valuable - freedom, countering the perceived tendency of many risk-averse parents to cosset their children indoors.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2015

Her task should be this,—to feed and cosset him if possible into good humour before her guest should arrive.

From Orley Farm by Trollope, Anthony