VERB
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influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
He palavered her into going along
How To Use sweet-talk In A Sentence
- Nizan's political stance at this juncture was a curious mixture of uncompromising denunciation and sweet-talking collaboration.
- She could always sweet-talk Pamela into letting her stay up late.
- Without Murdoch there bigfooting the other moguls, his No. 2, Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin, had a chance to sweet-talk them.
- The initial response of 'non' evolved into 'oui' after a month of sweet-talking. Times, Sunday Times
- You don't look a day over---" "Don't sweet-talk me," she said. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
- Alexander is a winning Berowne, trying to sweet-talk the immovable Rosaline, played with saucy spirit by the small, dark Lombardo.
- Don't sweet-talk me into it. I won't give you money anymore.
- The South that she wrote about — the South of snuff-dipping poor whites, evasively sweet-talking Negroes, and sunken-eyed back woods prophets — was undergoing a dizzying transformation even as she (a contemporary and qualified admirer of Martin Luther King, Jr.) was writing about it on an electric typewriter. Flannery O'Connor's Gifts
- Nizan's political stance at this juncture was a curious mixture of uncompromising denunciation and sweet-talking collaboration.
- `And here I thought I could sweet-talk you into teaching me more about the samba," Sabrina said grinning at Siobhan. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'