How to Use cajole in a Sentence

cajole

verb

• Her first coach had to cajole her to swim with her head down.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2021
• Strike captains worked hard to cajole those who drove on to the property to give up a honk — and some did.
  — William Earl, Variety, 8 May 2023
• Rick Scott pushed for and won a boost for teachers, then cajoled school districts to put the raises in place.
  — Gray Rohrer, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• Your parents or spouse may cajole you to ask for top dollar.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• And then John tries to cajole Lori into keeping all of this a secret from Mare.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 23 May 2021
• Soni hopes to cajole a dozen or more to sign on, leaning on the private-equity firms that own them.
  — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
• As the Spurs’ leader and point guard, Murray has attempted to cajole the best out of Walker.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Dec. 2021
• Even Barb, who had been cajoling the others to get tested, could not bring herself to do so.
  — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 20 July 2023
• How many times can a show cajole us into caring about a character only to kill them off by the end of the episode?
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2023
• The stage that night at Radio City Music Hall was filled with stars who had been cajoled into helping launch the show.
  — Mary Gabriel, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2023
• Over the years, the list of people who’d tried to cajole him back into writing and recording grew legion: Clive Davis.
  — Caryn Ganz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
• Over the years, the list of people who’d tried to cajole him back into writing and recording grew legion: Clive Davis.
  — Caryn Ganz, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• Or stay in the cities of the frosty North and the towns of the fractured South and try to cajole or force the nation towards equity and an honest reckoning with the past?
  — oregonlive, 16 Jan. 2023
• Other dog beds require you to squish, maneuver, force and cajole the stuffing back in.
  — Nick Guy, wsj.com, 13 Jan. 2024
• In recent months, Russia has sent emissaries to cajole the tribe members back to Assad’s fold.
  — Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 1 July 2019
• For 17 years, Walker and Collister would counsel, cajole and deal tough love to anyone who needed it, any day of the week.
  — Bruce Selcraig, ExpressNews.com, 16 Jan. 2021
• One fewer dose to have to cajole a toddler into getting.
  — Helen Branswell and Matthew Herper, STAT, 23 June 2022
• And then a schoolboy with mean little eyes who tries to cajole her, menacingly, into a game of hide-and-seek.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 20 May 2022
• Maybe this will finally cajole Ford to bring the Ranger Raptor to American roads.
  — Anthony Alaniz, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2018
• Meanwhile, Garriott had been attempting to cajole his way into space via the Ansari X Prize.
  — Alex Moore, Robb Report, 24 July 2021
• Lee using a Fox News program to cajole Romney into helping him is a risk.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Oct. 2022
• The left’s efforts to cajole him are sparked by more than frustration, however.
  — The Economist, 13 Mar. 2021
• And Mr Macron has learned the hard way that efforts to charm and cajole Mr Trump into better behaviour are usually in vain.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• Detectives bullied, cajoled, and lied to him about failing the testing.
  — Michelle Malkin, National Review, 5 June 2019
• During game broadcasts, betting odds scroll across screens and ads cajole viewers to wager on the outcomes.
  — Kenneth P. Vogel, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
• The right cajoled progressives to open the Trojan horse of anonymous surrender, and, soon enough, baby boxes crawled out of the woodwork.
  — Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
• One day, when Ilya was 10, he was cajoled by an older boy into sneaking into the grand building that the art school had commandeered.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 2 June 2023
• Sensing disaster, Norgay and Hillary raced up the mountain to cajole the tired men into action.
  — Freddie Wilkinson, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• The kind that the EU has fostered and cajoled into existence in other, smaller members?
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
• But if your kids are more the type to save their homework for after dinner, trying to cajole them into doing after school will just cause more stress.
  — Angela Anagnost-Repke, Good Housekeeping, 15 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024