Sample Sentences for
solicit
(editor-reviewed)

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    She was too shy to solicit orders, so I did it for her.†  (source)
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    Do you solicit my advice on your problems?†  (source)
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    It had taken years to solicit this information about where she grew up.†  (source)
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    At chapel the day following the heaviest snowfall, two hundred volunteers were solicited to spend the day shoveling them out, as part of the Emergency Usefulness policy adopted by the faculty that fall.†  (source)
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    It would solicit signs and picket lines.†  (source)
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    She was arrested twice—once for theft and once for soliciting.†  (source)
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    The system informed me that I'd received over two million new unsolicited messages.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsolicited means not and reverses the meaning of solicited. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    He did the work quickly, first sorting out the fliers and bulk mail and solicitation letters, then separating the bills and credit card statements and other semi-important notices from the other first-class letters and cards, of which there were quite a number.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    He selected one of the cards and read what was printed on it: MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS ————— ROYAL EXCHANGE WARD ————— Mr. Richard J. Tierney, P.L.G., respectfully solicits the favour of your vote and influence at the coming election in the Royal Exchange Ward.†  (source)
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    He was not only excited with his play, but visions were gleaming on him of going the next day to Brassing, where there was gambling on a grander scale to be had, and where, by one powerful snatch at the devil's bait, he might carry it off without the hook, and buy his rescue from his daily solicitings.†  (source)
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    And for three months, the only thing that truly mattered was that every day they waited, we improved another bunker, created more weapons, and solicited help from the outside world.†  (source)
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    It was extremely unlike Mrs. Barbour to solicit opinions from anyone at all on any subject, certainly not from me.†  (source)
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    The prosecution is soliciting an argument.†  (source)
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