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Example sentences for "succoring"

Lexicographically close words:
succinct; succinctly; succinic; succor; succored; succors; succory; succotash; succour; succoured
  1. That same day Spur was arrested, charged with the crime of succoring a heretic.

  2. During the Civil War she did relief work upon the battlefields, succoring with her own hands many a stricken soldier and saving him from a lingering death.

  3. There is nothing very traitorous in succoring distressed ladies," said Ascelin.

  4. Warships and soldiers which had been ordered to the city did effective service in succoring the most distressed and in the removal of refugees.

  5. The doctors and nurses stuck heroically to their posts and 100 students from Santa Clara College went over in a body and assisted in succoring the wounded.

  6. But the rent was made, and amid a hundred thousand Christian cheers the succoring ships sailed in victoriously to the Golden Horn, and many a mother's heart was glad as she closely clasped her half-famished child.

  7. At his side fights a huge Martian war-hound, nor did I need a second look to know that it was Woola--my faithful Woola who had thus well performed his arduous task and brought the succoring legions in the nick of time.

  8. Should we all go on and perish, there will be none to guide a succoring party to Dejah Thoris and your daughter.

  9. No oath could prevent a son from succoring his mother!

  10. It was the succoring army under the command of General Kisselef, and it was thus that he made known his welcome arrival to the Grand Duke.

  11. Deciding to remain at Knoxville, I called on General Ransom to join us with his main force, to aid in reinvesting it, or to hold it while we could march against a succoring force if the numbers should warrant.

  12. General Smith lay in wait three hours after the enemy's positions were broken and carried, giving ample time for the march of the succoring forces.

  13. On the 6th we marched to Rutledge, halting two days to get food and look for the succoring column by Cumberland Gap, which failed to appear.

  14. Duke," replied the king, "your counsel might have been good had I not departed from Medina with the avowed determination of succoring these cavaliers in person.

  15. For the same reason a man may retain what belongs to another, and give alms thereof; or even take something if there be no other way of succoring the one who is in need.

  16. Now according to the natural order established by Divine Providence, inferior things are ordained for the purpose of succoring man's needs by their means.

  17. Hence whatever certain people have in superabundance is due, by natural law, to the purpose of succoring the poor.

  18. Now in succoring the needy we give them what is not theirs but ours.

  19. It happened to be the abode of one of those poor, but pious matrons, who, attaching themselves to some neighboring order of charity, live alone in desert places for the purpose of succoring distressed travelers.

  20. And there its original mission was definite--the succoring of the wounded.

  21. It was its first opportunity to perform its chief and most vital service--the succoring of the wounded men of the United States Army.


  22. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "succoring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.