How to Use cosset in a Sentence

cosset

verb
  • The hotel cossets its guests with friendly service.
  • She had a safe, cosseted childhood.
  • But not every safari-goer wants all that cosseting (or the costs that go with it).
    — Lisa Grainger, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 July 2024
  • Bedrooms in white, beige, and silvery blue-gray soothe the soul even as the body is cosseted by the plumpest pillows.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Dec. 2017
  • In Normal mode the ride is soft and cosseting, and the cabin is well isolated from road and wind noise.
    — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The expansive pool deck as well as one of the country’s most cosseting spas, complete with hammam, helps round out the pampering on offer.
    — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
  • Earthy, moody colors cosset wellness-seekers in the treatment rooms, making way for organic cream hues in the diminutive swimming pool.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Bonds form with attendants who cosset customers for generations.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Skirting hides the visual static that lots of furniture legs can impose and gives the pieces a cosseting touch of traditional style.
    — Antonia Van Der Meer, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Despite the soaring ceilings, the aesthetic was cosseting, low-lit, and intimate.
    — Tom Robbins, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2023
  • There, the rich are indulged, protected, and cosseted, while the poor are punished, humiliated, and cast into chaos.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 31 Oct. 2019
  • But the old guard are wrong to say that the ECB is deliberately cosseting the southerners.
    — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The squad is industrious, modest and devoid of cosseted, overindulged superstars.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • What Readers Loved The high scores in this race indicate just how rich teeming Bangkok is in cosseting retreats.
    — Elaine Glusac, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
  • Meanwhile, competition to build the most cosseting hotel within a hotel is only growing.
    — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2024
  • Roan, by contrast, hasn’t had the time to learn how to protect herself against the glare of the spotlight, nor to gain the financial resources other celebrities use to cosset themselves from the world.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2024
  • For weeks after the funeral, John, Max and I were cosseted, cared for by many wonderful people who brought us food and sat in our living room.
    — Ann Bauer, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The downstairs dining room is intimate, cosseting and plush; upstairs is more relaxed and idiosyncratically chic.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 22 July 2025
  • None of the interior rooms is large, but what might have been a drawback becomes a strength in the hands of Ashe Leandro—each space is serene and cosseting and exquisitely detailed.
    — Michael Boodro, Architectural Digest, 9 Sep. 2024
  • While its remote location at the top of the world makes flying and staying here expensive, Greenland isn’t for luxury lovers accustomed to being cosseted.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2025
  • While its remote location at the top of the world makes flying and staying here expensive, Greenland isn’t for luxury lovers accustomed to being cosseted.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Guests are completely cosseted by the highly individual, high-spirited staff.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Not only are front-seat passengers cosseted by comfortable and supportive buckets, but those in the back seat will also appreciate its generous legroom and headroom.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 21 June 2023
  • Some people are in crisis, others cosseted by jobs that pay, and all are folded into a diminished town where more rock is ferried out of the quarries and onto highways, sent away, leaving a bigger hole in the ground.
    — Ellyn Gaydos, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
  • While most art cars since the fifth installment had been cosseted, this one was present at the starting line for the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans.
    — Trinity Francis, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Offices of mental-health professionals are teeming with psychologically fragile young people who have been cosseted their entire lives.
    — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Keep its adaptive dampers in their Normal setting, and the RX500h offers a cosseting ride that's still firm enough to keep excessive body motion at bay.
    — Greg S. Fink, Car and Driver, 1 June 2023
  • Designed to cosset the passenger, the captain’s chairs—sporting curved headrests—offer a generous 43 inches of legroom, can slide forward and recline up to 48 degrees.
    — Matthew Askari, Robb Report, 2 Feb. 2022
  • White Barn Inn, hands-down the ne plus ultra of fine dining in the area, has opened Little Barn in the abutting room—a cozy and refined-but-rustic space rolling out cosseting dishes of buttery skate wing schnitzel.
    — Alexandra Hall, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2023
  • Beneath a soaring wooden ceiling hung with a trio of dramatically oversize string lamps, Turner softened the blues and dialed up the tactile richness, establishing a more mature, cosseting mood.
    — Andrew Sessa, Robb Report, 5 Apr. 2026

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