(1) Students are unwilling to really work. They want to be spoon-fed.

(2) They had information spoon-fed to them.

(3) The students here do not expect to be spoon-fed.

(4) You can spoon-feed information to a computer.

(5) I don't believe in spoon-feeding students.

(6) They were less willing to be spoon-fed doctrines from Japan.

(7) By giving out printed sheets of facts and theories, the teachers spoon-fed us with what we needed for the exam.

(8) It took two years for me to get better, during which time he spoon-fed me and did absolutely everything around the house.

(9) Some teachers spoon-feed their students.

(10) Teachers should avoid spoon-feeding facts to students.

(11) Duffy refuses to fall into the trap of spoon-feeding the material to passive students, which only increases their passivity.

(12) Williams's father started out poor, made a fortune the hard way, and was contemptuous of his spoon-fed children.

(13) They had been spoon-fed for so long that they had lost the habit of independent inquiry.