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
Drivers can’t spoon-feed babies in a car seat, but they can hand them a tube of banana puffs and let them feed themselves.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019
We must spoon-feed it, and nice nights that will give me!
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852 by Chambers, William
