How to Use sweet-talk in a Sentence

sweet-talk

1 of 2 verb
  • Forget the old myths about dressing up or sweet-talking your way to the front.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Forget the old myths about dressing up or sweet-talking your way to the front.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025
  • And then there’s no sweet-talking ABS.
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Instead of sweet-talking your way out of a parking ticket, admit your mistake and pay the fine.
    — Sarah Vanbuskirk, Parents, 10 Jan. 2026
  • When you're isolated, that sweet-talking stranger starts looking pretty appealing.
    — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Hanks takes a detour from his traditional nice guy roles to sleaze it up as the hard-drinking, sweet-talking Wilson, and that alone is worth a watch.
    — Lia Beck, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025
  • That’s Frank sweet-talking Miss Terry into coming to West Virginia.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Ukraine and its European allies are worried Putin may succeed in sweet-talking Trump into signing up for its one-sided vision for ending the war, leaving Kyiv out in the cold.
    — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Nate the Cuckold Nate is so deep in debt that he sweet-talks Cassie, who still has feelings for him, into wiring him $35,000 to make the mortgage payment on their house — and then another $30,000.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 11 May 2026

sweet talk

2 of 2 noun
  • Just in case that gave Reba a leg up, don't let her sweet talk you.
    — USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
  • UConn needs help and has issues that sweet talking can’t solve.
    — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 7 June 2018
  • Watch an encounter full of sweet talk, gaslighting and tension here.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Feb. 2026
  • What confuses matters is all this sweet talk, followed by the vanishing act.
    — Gabrielle Ulubay, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
  • All the sweet talk in the world may not be enough to make some onerous responsibility appealing.
    — Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Don’t fall for compliments that don’t feel genuine, and don’t be afraid to confront whatever’s beneath someone’s sweet talk.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Before the real fight begins, my group and I sweet talk our way to the media and VIP entrance.
    — Christine Flammia, Esquire, 27 Aug. 2017
  • Our nurturing aspect helps to basically sweet talk [offenders] into the back of our cars and into handcuffs.
    — Caitlin Doornbos, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Virginia tried to sweet talk West Virginia into getting back together, but West Virginia held strong.
    — Longreads, 22 Jan. 2020
  • But the crust also has a teasing quality, as if its flavors and textures sweet talk you for a couple of tantalizing seconds, then disappear forever.
    — Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Normandy’s sweet talk follows similar moves by Paris and other European capitals to lure banking giants based in London’s financial district.
    — Elena Berton, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2018

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