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
"I wanted someone to spoon-feed me information in a format that was easy."
From BBC • Nov. 17, 2021
Her Little Sisters of the Sick Poor are prime examples, as the name suggests: They spoon-feed the toothless, comfort the grieving, scrub floors, clean wounds, change diapers, empty bedpans.
From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2021
The show’s smartest decision, other than Byrne’s casting, may be its tendency to evoke rather than spoon-feed.
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2021
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
