How to Use spoon-feed in a Sentence

spoon-feed

verb
  • Swift was shown spoon-feeding him, tongue in cheek, like a fussy baby in a restaurant.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 20 June 2026
  • This is not spoon-feeding the audience.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026
  • What motivates him, besides the discerning women who exist to spoon-feed him the harsh truths of life?
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The owners spoon-fed her every two hours and were instructed not to touch her for the first few weeks to allow proper healing.
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The study and learn tool guides you on a journey of exploration and skill development, without spoon-feeding you the answers.
    — Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Staff started out by wearing bear masks and animal furs, then crawling into the enclosure to spoon-feed the cubs formula.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
  • Miles is spoon-feeding free-agent frontcourt acquisitions Natasha Howard and Nia Coffey on the pick-and-roll.
    — Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 9 June 2026
  • That may present the challenge of not allowing people to imagine the scene for themselves which, in our over stimulated era, might be seen as spoon-feeding our imagination.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
  • In the pop-culture world now with Chappell and Olivia, a lot of the music had been so mechanized and auto-tuned — spoon-fed that way for a little bit longer than people realize.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Nowhere is this more apparent than in a montage of snapshots during which the characters recount everything, spoon-feeding us information that should either be implied or not there at all.
    — Jay Weissberg, Variety, 14 May 2026
  • Still, the normally apathetic members of the Russian public, at least a number of them, are no longer willing to gobble up whatever Russian state television spoon-feeds them.
    — Daniel Depetris, Twin Cities, 15 May 2026
  • Still, the normally apathetic members of the Russian public, at least a number of them, are no longer willing to gobble up whatever Russian state television spoon-feeds them.
    — Daniel Depetris, Mercury News, 23 May 2026

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