Sentences with wheedle
whee·dle
W w - Cross decided to beg and wheedle a bit. [VERB]
- She wheedled some money out of her father
- Hoping to wheedle staff to stay later or forgo a break to put them on one of the machines that do the blood screening work left undone.
- I went right back to school and tried to wheedle my way back into my old life by playing with friends.
- We wheedled him incessantly, but he would not consent.
- She wheedled him into going with her.
- The suspect had in the past used hard-luck stories about broken-down cars or empty gas tanks to wheedle his way into his victims' cars.
- I wheedled a new car out of my father.
- I always wheedle if I really need something.