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

Aunt Barbara did not scold—she was too relieved at her bairn's safe return to do anything except welcome and cosset the prodigal; but the look in her sweet eyes hurt Dorothy more than any reprimand.

From A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days by Brazil, Angela