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Meanings of baby in English
Synonyms
Examples for "spoil"
Examples for "spoil"
1
However, I also strongly believe in the right to spoil your vote.
2
I wanted to spoil the party by a long way, Abbott said.
3
No way was he going to let a woman spoil the moment.
4
We should not interfere in case we spoil an official criminal investigation.
5
The only result will be to spoil the control of the aeroplane.
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News Corp is in an better position to indulge in public soul-searching.
2
IS IT possible to indulge in national stereotyping without being a racist?
3
Covid-19 has also given politicians a chance to indulge their protectionist instincts.
4
And these indulge in subtleties in order to excuse the most wicked.
5
Besides, the South with its slave labor could not indulge in manufacturing.
1
Other animals in the range include elephants, alligators, giraffes and cocker spaniels.
2
This was the moment when the red cocker's tail came to grief.
3
He sounds like our cocker spaniel puppy, and still I don't understand.
4
I don't have to wait long for the muted clitter of cocker claws.
5
The seven puppies include five beagles and two beagle-cocker spaniel mixes.
1
I had no idea that he would be such an old coddle.
2
We make no attempt to coddle the people who work with us.
3
It's not that and you know it, Joe, so don't coddle me.
4
And so we left them alone awhile, to coddle over their raptures.
5
Come on, and don't be a molly-coddle, cried Tommy, wild to go.
1
I'd a humor to pamper myself so long as my side protested.
2
I knew how to pamper myself and indulge in a slow morning.
3
How much you pamper yourself after that is entirely up to you.
4
In this hell of theirs they will even pamper his beastly body.'
5
And you don't have to pamper them-particularlyin the matter of food.
1
Great featherbed clouds are billowing across the sun, their edges brilliant silver.
2
Her featherbed was twice as wide and lofty as my straw-and-rag-filled shakedown.
3
The bed hangings were askew and the featherbed dumped unceremoniously on the floor.
4
The bedding smelled of down must, and the pungent straw beneath the featherbed.
5
For a moment she thought about the High King's featherbed.
1
But they got four in return: Nick is no mollycoddle, you know.
2
And they say he's the most awful mollycoddle-looksjust like a girl.
3
We don't need a mollycoddle like you here in the Naval Academy!
4
We didn't bring the boy out here to make a mollycoddle of him.
5
You don't want to make a mollycoddle of him, do you?
1
We must rally round and cosset this cove in no uncertain manner.
2
Not cosset her and spoil her for the next week or two.
3
She, bless her, should dandle and cosset them to her heart's content.
4
Miss Matilda looked miserably ill; and I prepared to comfort and cosset her.
5
I've never been the type to flatter and cosset my patients.
Usage of baby in English
1
She had made that decision long ago; her baby was the law.
2
Jai's health and the viability of our baby were at great risk.
3
Another baby, born the previous year, left as his family moved away.
4
The main risks to the baby are premature birth and respiratory problems.
5
We wish that a baby will soon grace your family, Knotgrass said.
6
I called Dorothy today and her father said she's not baby-sitting anymore.
7
In other words, we will have gone a long way back, baby.
8
New Zealand should also do more testing of baby food, she said.
9
Pretty soon that baby grows up and starts to have health problems.
10
The goat ran; the baby laughed; Pineknot danced and clapped his hands.
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One told The Sun: Everyone's hoping news of the baby comes soon.
12
She said she definitely plans to have another baby in the future.
13
Every year we hear about the most popular baby names in NZ.
14
One thing's for sure: Washington is still tight-lipped on the baby issue.
15
Very casually Larry said: Yes, I think they can make a baby.
16
Believe it or not, the family wants what's best for the baby.
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