Sentence example with the word 'suppliant'

suppliant

adorant, aspirant, cadging, claimant, devout, mendicant, postulant, prostrate before, seeker, supplicant, venerative, worshiping

Definition adj. humbly entreating

Last update: October 26, 2015

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After watching Tucker fail miserably because he had made bold demands, I decided to take a more suppliant tactic in asking for a raise.   [Please select]

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Meek and suppliant, the best man admitted he had forgotten the ring and begged the bride and groom for forgiveness.   [Please select]

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Alternately victorious and defeated, spared by the Syracusans on whose mercy he cast himself as a suppliant (451), sent to be safe at Corinth, he came back to Sicily only to form greater plans than before.   [Please select]

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In any case, she must have the meekness of the suppliant.   [Please select]

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_Time was, thy friend; time is, thy suppliant only_.   [Please select]

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Both her hands were eagerly caught in those of the suppliant.   [Please select]

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After all, she is our guest and my suppliant, and prayers are the daughters of Zeus.   [Please select]

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And all the time the reality was _this_--so soft, suppliant, ethereal.   [Please select]

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He returned, after the battle of Pharsalia, a suppliant at the feet of Caesar, the conqueror.   [Please select]

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The first they visited received Theodore with injudicious condescension almost as if he were a suppliant.   [Please select]

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As he neared Bolaroz and the Princess he collapsed and became a trembling, moaning suppliant for mercy.   [Please select]

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