spoon-feed

Example Sentences

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Staff started out by wearing bear masks and animal furs, then crawling into the enclosure to spoon-feed the cubs formula.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

He was not going to spoon-feed that to us.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2023

"I wanted someone to spoon-feed me information in a format that was easy."

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2021

Then I would imprison him in his highchair and spoon-feed him, eager to witness gastronomic revelation — the earthy sweetness of yams tinged with maple syrup, the vegetal pleasure of buttery broccoli.

From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2020

Better let them go to hell in their own way than attempt to spoon-feed them.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John