obliging

Example Sentences

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When Rana’s curiosity leads her far from home, she must call on her memory of her mother’s stories and, with the help of an obliging polar bear, find her own way back.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

It turns out clafoutis is a natural shape-shifter — easy to make, nearly impossible to ruin and endlessly obliging.

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2025

“Friendship” surrounds Robinson with normalcy: filler talk, obliging laughter and the kind of handsome lighting you’d see in a home-insurance commercial.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

These include rules obliging banks to run enhanced money laundering checks for defence and security companies, and to make sure they are not financing weapons banned under international treaties.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2025

To begin with, for you to be here now trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and intriguingly obliging manner to create you.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson