supplicant

Example Sentences

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Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin ended their Moscow summit this week by showcasing economic help and diplomatic support China will provide the now supplicant banana-less republic that is Putin’s Russia today.

From Seattle Times

“Putin went to Beijing as the supplicant and got China’s tacit support for his war, at the price of mortgaging Russia’s future to China,” former deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger told me.

From Washington Post

When Haqqani finished preaching, supplicants swarmed around him like a rock star.

From Los Angeles Times

There are biting parodies of troubling Black tropes in entertainment, like the supplicant servant figures in “Driving Miss Daisy” and “The Help.”

From New York Times

“They told their crazies and their supplicants in the mainstream media this was about President Trump. Instead, their Witch Hunt is persecuting an innocent 80-year-old man for maybe taking free parking!”

From Washington Times