wheedling in a sentence

Examples

1. The judge tried to wheedle the original artwork for a cartoon that caught his fancy.
2. Count on Ashcroft to wheedle some more.
3. That would buy Simpson time to wheedle his colleagues and peel votes away from Abraham.
4. He does the same on stage, through storytelling, gentle wheedling and audience interaction.
5. "Blarney " soon became a byword of cajolery, flattering, wheedling talk.
6. Oily, troubled, a mind-gamer, he bullied and wheedled them to the championship.
7. Merchant says he wheedled, cajoled and threatened in order to raise the money for the effort.
8. Have you wheedled an invitation to the NFL commissioner's bash downtown's Civic Plaza?
9. Like a third-grade teacher, he has grown weary of the wheedling entreaties from guests.
10. After long hours of wheedling, a consular officer gave him a three-month tourist visa.