CODDLE in a Sentence

coddle

 v.  treat gently; cook in water just below boiling point

1  Edna took him in her arms, and seating herself in the rocker, began to coddle and caress him, calling him all manner of tender names, soothing him to sleep.

The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIV

2  There was a twinge of pain, but Jurgis was used to pain, and did not coddle himself.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11

3  He said frankly that he preferred the Captain's swearing and bullying to his daughter-in-law's coddling, and her incessant demands that he give up chewing tobacco and launder his beard every day.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX

4  He told me he felt ten years younger since he escaped from the house and his daughter-in-law's coddling and took to driving the wagon.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII

5  I suspect she is right, and that I've been coddling the fellow as if I'd been his grandmother.

Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SIX

6  She had fussed over him and planned special dishes for him and coddled him during his innumerable colds.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII

7  I expect I'm more coddled than you are.

Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19

1  Don't coddle the children so much; they need a taste of discipline.

2  A polar vortex, with its satisfyingly assonant vowels and crisp consonants, sounds like either a down coat made by Patagonia or an enormous luxury-brand SUV—that is, an expensive product meant to evoke the wilds but actually used by coddled suburbanites.