Usage examples (11)

• Verb (used with object) : He coaxed her to sing, but she refused. ,We coaxed the secret from him. ,He coaxed the large chair through the door
• He was “a great coaxer of stories; whatever was there that was any good, he would find it.”
• .38 Colt's was incentive enough to make him stop and then he shoved her over and gave her a little steam -- just a coaxer.
• That old pony had a sly, artful eye and a way of shaking his head that was tricky -- and try to catch him loose on the prairie with a bucket of oats as a coaxer!