Example Sentences

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He understood that the Americans whose feet he was wooing were increasingly prone to viewing China as unsavory, and even malevolent.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2023

The first was a new competitor, the European business consortium Airbus, which was wooing customers away from Boeing with sleek designs.

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2021

However, when he was wooing his second wife, Canadian pianist Hélène Mercier, he did it by playing for her.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2019

Then I suddenly realized he was wooing me to join the Lauder company.

From MSNBC • Nov. 15, 2017

Word had got out that Jean was wooing Blanca, but that did not prevent his remaining the favorite of all the matchmaking mothers of the area.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende