Example Sentences

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“Yellowstone” co-creator Taylor Sheridan is obliging with “1883,” described as a retelling of Western expansion though the impoverished family’s journey toward a new chapter in pre-statehood Montana.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2021

“It is obliging us to do something I don’t want to do. I prefer to say ‘No’ and keep my freedom.”

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2021

The wheel may be unbroken, but for Game of Thrones, if your noblesse is obliging enough, it works.

From Slate • May 21, 2019

Pitt is obliging, but tongue-tied – so I make small talk with Heidenreich.

From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2012

That is obliging me once more to put on my serious face—The danger in which I so lately saw you hangs heavily on my mind; that and the warm passions by which it was occasioned.

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas