- present participle of supplicate.
supplicating
Example Sentences
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From noon to midnight, it is alive with the buzz of crowded restaurants, supplicating panhandlers, weaving motorcycles, and pushy vendors.
From The Verge ● Aug. 11, 2022
I abandoned my front-row seat and sank to my knees, supplicating myself before the cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom’s gorgeous, otherworldly images.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2021
As I do them, moving my legs one way, my arms the other, bending and supplicating my spine, I can hear my sacral joints clicking, realigning, settling themselves, speaking to me.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2018
Mr. Iannucci is particularly good at the theater of sycophancy and at all the ways in which supplicating faces, hands and bodies can quiver in fear and with a terrible love.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2018
He punched his hat back, concentrated, stiffened his hands, palms upward, in a supplicating gesture and began softly to chant Tantum ergo sacramentum, Veneremur cernui in as beautiful Latin as I have ever heard.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
