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How to use coddle in a sentence

11 example sentences · verb, noun

Coddle means to treat gently or with great care. Example: “Y’all still wet behind the ears from being coddled by your mamas!”

Examples of coddle by meaning

verbTo cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.

  • a coddled egg

More sentences with coddle

  • Y’all still wet behind the ears from being coddled by your mamas!2005, J. C. Arlington, A Red Horse Rode Out, page 17. From the entry y'allselves
  • After coddling clients, retrieving luggage, and fighting traffic, he beheld sweet, nagless me.2001, Jan Marshall, Still Hanging in There. From the entry nagless
  • Remarkably, the camels seemed to take pity on these pussies and began to protect and even coddle them.2013 January 13, anonymous author, “Cat-lore”, in alt.privacy.anon-server (Usenet), retrieved 14 Aug 2022. From the entry likewised
  • No more coddling of the apartheid regime in Islamisbad!2010 June 10, hcobb, “Where Is The American Freedom Flotilla?”, in sci.military.naval (Usenet), archived from the original on 10 Feb 2026. From the entry Islamisbad
  • “We’ve thought about leaving the state to find a job,” Sara March said, as she coddled her 7-month-old daughter, Windy.1993 September 3, Davan Maharaj, “Boy’s Death Shows Obstacles to Aiding Homeless Children”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los…. From the entry windy
  • "Coddling criminals"—the alliteration makes it roll pleasantly off the tongue!1914, Julian Hawthorne, chapter 5, in The Subterranean Brotherhood. From the entry roll off the tongue
  • For a week or more the little girl had to be pampered and coddled in a manner that made Bobby quite cross with jealousy.2012, Jessica Stirling, The Wise Child: Book Three. From the entry pettedness
  • But almost everything has suffered from being twaddlingly coddled by an undiscerning and over-appreciative audience which appears to park its brains along with its Volvos.1996, Theater Week, volume 9, page 44. From the entry twaddlingly
  • Each ethnic group blames Yugoslavia's problems on another group, and they coddle their right to hate as if it were the primordial gift of fire.1990 August, Kenneth C. Danforth, “Yugoslavia: A House Much Divided”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, pages 103-106. From the entry ethnic group
  • Whatever its beginnings, the original salad of romaine lettuce mixed with grated cheese, coddled eggs and bread cubes fried in olive oil started a no-end-in-sight trend.1976, Betty Crocker's Cooking American Style, page 108. From the entry coddled

Meaning of coddle

  1. verb To treat gently or with great care.
  2. verb To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
  3. verb To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.

Full definition of coddle

Questions about coddle in a sentence

How do you use coddle in a sentence?
Coddle is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Y’all still wet behind the ears from being coddled by your mamas!”
What is a short sentence with coddle?
“a coddled egg”
What does coddle mean?
Coddle means to treat gently or with great care.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coddle (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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