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
“So you may, and I will feed you as if you were my cosset lamb.”
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard
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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