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Definition
to ask or plead for something(See Dictionary link for more specific senses of the word.)
- In fact, as a group, the student observations I solicited were on the money.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- Therefore be gone; solicit me no more.William Shakespeare -- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- But one got nothing by soliciting urgently.Virginia Woolf -- To the Lighthouse
- If you bethink yourself of any crime Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight.William Shakespeare -- Othello, the Moor of Venice
- That Father earnestly solicited me to accompany him, & I referred him to my partner.Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe
- Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me Man? did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me, or here place In this delicious garden?John Milton -- Paradise Lost
- He knew where to post ads on the Internet to solicit college football players.Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
- She was too shy to solicit orders, so I did it for her.Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
- Members were set on the streets with cans to solicit funds for his burial.Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
- "Pal, don't you know there's a law against soliciting a police officer?"J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
- The prosecution is soliciting an argument.Walter Dean Myers -- Monster
- Along the way, in railcars, stations, and hotels, he solicited the views of strangers about the fair while keeping his own identity a secret.Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
- When the chief, who had solicited the aid of Duncan, finished his pipe, he made a final and successful movement toward departing.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
- "Let's assume he was, as you say, there to solicit a prostitute," Martin said.Scott Pratt -- An Innocent Client
- It had taken years to solicit this information about where she grew up.James McBride -- The Color of Water
- She needed a caterer, and it would probably be a good idea to start soliciting donations for the gift baskets.Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me
- Fourteen billion to be solicited from a population of 160 million: nearly one hundred dollars, on average, from every man, woman, and child in America.James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
- You soliciting couch business?Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- Richter often solicited David's opinion while Max was relegated to the role of silent spectator.Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
- Streetwalking and soliciting.James Joyce -- Ulysses