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

“I’ve had a dale to do with sheep, and lambs, too, in my younger days, and many’s the little cosset I’ve brought up by hand, when the poor cratur would otherwise have died.”

From Minnie's Pet Lamb by Leslie, Madeline