sweet talk
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Really, what writer, no matter how detached from their past, could resist that kind of sweet talk?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
It’s a central theme in my book to help clarify that no amount of sweet talk can replace the inevitable loss, the inherent loss, that is adoption.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
They can sweet talk you, and then you're backsliding.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2019
Eve is Villanelle’s type—it’s the hair—but perhaps it’s also a certain shared brusqueness, the way that Eve can’t flirt or sweet talk anyone she’s not actually interested in, even if it would be useful.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2018
Still, it wasn’t all sweet talk with her.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
Here, immigrants yell out their menus and sweet-talk potential customers as they stroll by.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2025
But this thing is far from over, and we’re curious about some of the sweet-talk McCarthy may have used to jam this through.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2023
Say what you will about the questionable career goals of Lorelei Lee, whose single ambition, in the film’s view, is to sweet-talk a millionaire into marrying her.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2022
He's been a constant presence to chivvy team-mates and sweet-talk officials.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2022
“You can’t sweet-talk a monster into anything else, when all it does want is monsterness. Good and innocent, they not the same thing; they don’t wear the same face.”
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
We witness McFadin as he smilingly interrogates—and intimidates—witnesses and plaintiffs, beguiles juries and sweet-talks judges, knocking down charges against Kenrex as if bowling strike after strike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
And finally, finally, he sweet-talks Cindy McCain into letting him onto the bus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
In one scene, a cop pulls over Jones and Murray, who sweet-talks him out of issuing a ticket.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2020
As the co-worker at the armored-car company who sweet-talks him into the robbery, Kristen Wiig seems game but barely engaged with her part.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2016
Pa says when someone sweet-talks you like this, you got to be real careful with the next words that come out of their mouth.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has sweet-talked her U.S. counterpart and accommodated his priorities from drugs to trade.
From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025
The president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner helped move the deal to conclusion while Mr. Trump cajoled, twisted arms and, when necessary, sweet-talked friends and foes alike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
He kept Ali out of prison, got him a fight in Canada and sweet-talked a few other venues into staging Ali fights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
She sweet-talked her way to the front of the airport security line when she was late for a flight.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023
Shackleton sweet-talked wealthy patrons, took public donations, and raised money as an advance based on future sales of film and photo rights.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
The sweet-talking civilians don’t have weapons or control over the nuclear program, but the others do.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
In the flurry of negotiations and sweet-talking by multiple teams that greeted him on the first frantic day of NFL free agency, Dre’Mont Jones was not expecting the Seahawks to be a factor.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
This form of hacking through social engineering is even older than computers themselves - just ask infamous former hacker Kevin Mitnick, who was sweet-talking his way around telephone networks back in the 70s.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2022
Yet confronting even a sweet-talking reaper can foster a kind of self-mastery.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2018
It was there the sweet-talking actor used his charms and talents to win over the man to his cause.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
