1. The government is not soft-soaping the voters here.

2. Don't think you can soft-soap me!

3. Don't try to soft-soap me, I'm not changing my mind.

4. Mr. C can soft-soap his wife into (doing) anything.

5. Another quieter way to win support or gain influence is to "soft-soap" a person.

6. Don't tempt to soft-soap me; i am not changing my mind.

7. A gift is just one way to "soft-soap" somebody, or to "butter him up.

8. But that won't stop the timeshare touts trying to soft-soap you into buying abroad.

9. It has succeeded without any of the marketing hype, environmental or otherwise, that rival firms use to soft-soap their customers.

10. Martin washed woollens that day, by hand, in a large barrel, with strong soft-soap, by means of a hub from a wagon wheel, mounted on a plunger-pole that was attached to a spring-pole overhead.

11. So passed Sunday, and Monday morning he was hard at work, sorting clothes, while Joe, a towel bound tightly around his head, with groans and blasphemies, was running the washer and mixing soft-soap.