supplicant

Example Sentences

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Boy Kavalier thinks he’s king of the planet with everyone else supplicant to his will.

From Salon • Sep. 24, 2025

It is difficult to trace when, exactly, Mark Emmert’s tenure as the N.C.A.A. president went from skidding to stalled, as the governing body of big-time college sports descended from juggernaut to supplicant.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2022

She returns to them here like a supplicant at her prayer book: begging to understand them even just a little bit more.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2021

Another supplicant wanted a piece of the lottery winnings to get her driveway paved.

From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2021

In contrast to the Catholicism of school, the Mexican Catholicism of home was less concerned with man the sinner than with man the supplicant.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez