supplicating

Example Sentences

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The windows do away with the plaintive or supplicating figures more common to Christian stained glass.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2023

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

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

Delicacy and sweetness are supplicating, but true fury is profound.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 15, 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