wheedled
Example Sentences
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Then, at his busiest, with a wife and three children impatiently waiting at home, he wheedled Mel Brooks for a cameo in “Young Frankenstein.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
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
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
The statuette was included in the 1881 exhibition of the Impressionists — a group that Gauguin wheedled his way into as a collector.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2017
So Nok's mother wheedled and cut deals with her society friends, and by a sheer miracle, she landed Nok's father an even better gig: Chief Law Commissioner.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
