wheedled

Example Sentences

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Ask any nerd who wheedled her parents for a little more cash to buy books: What you get from Scholastic is what your parents are willing to buy you.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2023

The part of Orlean who, as a child, wheedled her pet-averse mother into adopting a dog is never too distant from the scrutinizing reporter.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021

It’s a fascinating vignette, but we never learn her real name, or what happened to her, or how she wheedled those secrets from Nazi submariners, or how useful her intel proved to Alliance and MI6.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2019

As someone who wheedled his grandmother into taking him to see Hitchcock’s “Frenzy” at age 13, I can both relate, and think I have him beat in the awkwardness department.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2018

“You know how it is,” Doc Daneeka had wheedled, with a sly, conspiratorial wink.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller