Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "supplicatory"

Lexicographically close words:
supplicated; supplicates; supplicating; supplication; supplications; supplice; supplices; supplicium; supplie; supplied
  1. A silent appeal to Heaven succeeded; and then, without one supplicatory address for mercy, in a manly tone, he inquired what time would be allowed them to prepare for death.

  2. He stopped, and turning to the direction in which we were to proceed, raised his hands in a supplicatory manner, and cried, "Oh Kalee!

  3. A little of the sugar was then put into the hole by my father; he raised his clasped hands to heaven and in a supplicatory manner cried aloud-- "Powerful and mighty goddess!

  4. Soon some of the citizens of Leontini fell in with them, and many of the Peloponnesians gathered round Dion, suspecting from the earnest and supplicatory tones and gestures of the ambassadors that something important had happened.

  5. Mr. Nary: "Would any one contend that the rollicking tunes of many a modern Kyrie express the meaning of the supplicatory ejaculation, Lord, have mercy on us?

  6. I should have thought myself in paradise had not the supplicatory tones of the clergy announced a felicity still imperfect.

  7. He had raised his eyes to the doctor with a gentle, supplicatory expression, and taking the pears from the pocket of his worn, mended jacket, he gave them to the physician.

  8. And while saying so and smiling kindly at the general, he raised his great blue eyes to the face of his mother an instant with a supplicatory expression.

  9. You will say nothing to Bonaparte about this secret way, Fouche," said Josephine, with a gentle, supplicatory tone.

  10. Let me go," he said again, with a look of supplicatory appeal.

  11. Laddie stood and looked into his face with something of the supplicatory appeal that was on the countenance of the man he had just left.

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

  13. You cannot see my father, mother," she said in a broken and supplicatory tone.


  14. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "supplicatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adoring; begging; devout; imploring; mendicant; prayerful; prostrate; reverent; solemn; suppliant; supplicant; supplicatory; worshipful; worshiping