cosset
Example Sentences
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In contrast, the high-ticket productions on Broadway more often than not aim to cosset.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2019
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
It is clear from the excellent condition of all our homes that we cosset them.
From The Guardian • May 25, 2012
When but a small lad my step-father gave me a cosset lamb which I raised with a promise from him to give me half the wool and all of the increase.
From Twenty Years of Hus'ling by Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace)
Vocabulary lists containing cosset
"The Wife of Bath's Tale," Vocabulary from the narrative poem
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"The Wife of Bath's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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