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Example sentences for "cajoled"

Lexicographically close words:
caitiff; caitiffs; caix; cajeput; cajole; cajoleries; cajolery; cajoling; cake; caked
  1. Stokoe, was speedily cajoled into disobeying the British regulations and underwent official disgrace.

  2. And that was the conduct of all royalists who were not dazzled by the glamour of success or cajoled by Napoleon's favours.

  3. Either his own fears, or the crafty mixture of threats and flattery that cajoled so many envoys, led him to neglect the interests of Prussia, and to play into the hands of the very man whose ambition he was sent to check.

  4. The Assembly, however, firmly convinced of the loyalty of the people, were neither to be cajoled nor brow-beaten out of their rights, and they proceeded to other business of a singularly unpleasant character to the higher powers.

  5. He cajoled the Iroquois and prevented war.

  6. Brief experience had already taught Sarah, as it had Rosemary and Shirley, that while Richard might be cajoled or persuaded, Warren was firmness itself.

  7. Sarah cajoled and bullied her into continuing and the two children managed to make the steep climb and reach the platform at the top of the mill.

  8. Lady Idalia had run away from her husband, but every time had cajoled her way back.

  9. I caressed his cheeks, that he might be cajoled into forgiving.

  10. FN#358] Thereupon he went in to him and spake him fair and cajoled him, till he confessed to him that his malady was caused by the picture.

  11. Even if we grant martial intrepidity to the members of the Slavocracy, the present war proves that the system of Slavery is not one which develops martial virtues among the "free whites" it has cajoled or forced into its hateful service.

  12. Then, changing her tone, she cajoled him: if she indeed had the cloth, it would be easy for him to retract his statement concerning having seen her purloin it.

  13. Perfect in the art of dissimulation, she cajoled Catholics and Protestants.

  14. He seemed remarkably cheerful, as carolling he drove his carjole and cajoled his horse through the dripping pine forests.

  15. She attended to the house-keeping, cajoled her brother into a good humour when necessary, and nearly every evening slipped out to meet Henry Vand, who usually awaited her arrival on the hither side of the boundary channel.

  16. But the Typee was not to be cajoled in that way.

  17. That young officer's heart was light, three days later, when he received the letter of Nadine which Madame Louison had cajoled easily from the Swiss woman.

  18. The things went out of the hands of the hostile traitor princes, and Hugh Fraser, as he was, cajoled them from the custody of the go-betweens.

  19. They were threatened and cajoled by turns, but with little effect.

  20. How often hast thou cajoled me, in my love for thee, and escaped the punishment thou shouldst have had in justice?

  21. Truly here was no soft-hearted fray to be cajoled with ready words.

  22. If I had not cajoled those three deputies they might have wanted La Billardiere's place themselves; whereas, now that I have invited them here, they will be ashamed to do so and will become our supporters instead of rivals.

  23. At such times the minister petted and cajoled des Lupeaulx.

  24. The Houses of Austria and Brandenburgh, the Electors of Bavaria and Baden, have by turns been cajoled into a belief of his exclusive support towards obtaining it at the first vacancy.

  25. Even the poor Indians, so often cajoled out of their rights as to be thoroughly incredulous of good faith among the pale-faces, made him an exception to their rooted distrust.

  26. To hope that the people may be cajoled into giving their sanctions to such institutions is still more chimerical.

  27. In a word, then, brother, he found that he had been deceived, kept in ignorance, cajoled to part with rights concealed from him.

  28. He was not one who could be cajoled and cheated; he was not one who could be overruled or thwarted.

  29. They found him out: the parish clerk cajoled him, but he remained sitting in his corner and listened to the children playing till the brown-complexioned boy had gone away.

  30. By various promises of exchange his school-fellows had cajoled away from him his herbarium, his collection of beetles, his chemical apparatus, his adventure books.

  31. Napoleon was cajoled to nominate him a grand almoner of the Kingdom of Italy, and the Cardinal set out for Milan.

  32. It is stated by various authorities that Cicero was cajoled with the hopes of the consulship (Dion Cassius, 46.

  33. The young man cajoled the old one and made a tool of him.

  34. Then he drew her to him, kissed her hair, and cajoled her.

  35. He was coming to the sepulchral violations, and now to the torture of the little children whom he had cajoled in order to cut their throats as he kissed them.

  36. She chid him for having been away so long, then cajoled him and kissed him.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cajoled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.