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
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
Let the new bourgeois tyrants cuddle and cosset the serpent that shall bite them, as did the salon ladies of the old regime.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper
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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