Example Sentences

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In Moscow, officials are playing down Putin’s supplicatory position.

From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2023

And yet while Dylan’s lyrical gift is wild, copious, and immoderate, Cohen’s is precise, supplicatory and cloistral.

From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2016

"There you are wrong, Captain Disbrowe," returned Pillichody, in a supplicatory tone.

From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison

Then again, its vortex of agony swept across her lips in piteous supplicatory sobs, vibrating in the stillness like the bleating of a dazed, lost creature enmeshed in the tentacles of some merciless destroyer.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

The lights at the altar burnt dimly in his eyes—the loud antiphon and the supplicatory prayer fell upon a listless ear.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison