How to Use obliging in a Sentence

obliging

adjective
  • An obliging passerby helped her with her packages.
  • With luck, at least one of them will be as obliging as Blanche.
    — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2023
  • To such a request, the world is obliging.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Janet tends to be obliging to a fault, even when men give her reason to distrust them.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 June 2024
  • The service Service is warm and obliging.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Rate setters were far more obliging just over a year ago, before the first rate increase in nearly a decade.
    — Steven Russolillo, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2016
  • Mister is by nature a friendly doggie who is always sweet and obliging when strangers want to pet him.
    — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Only a young woman in a scarlet petticoat proves more obliging.
    — John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
  • Perhaps it could be argued that Freiburg were obliging opponents.
    — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • Gilles, meanwhile, settles into the role of the obliging patriarch who’s hot or warm as needed.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Any obliging picnic table along the way will offer the same incredible view.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Texas coach Sean Miller wanted better defense, and the Horns are obliging.
    — Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 8 Dec. 2025
  • His fans gave him an obliging laugh; a father and son sitting beside me snickered loudly enough to be captured on camera.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Before taking a seat, many guests flock to the patio for photos, with staff kindly obliging and offering to take a snap or two.
    — Colin Wrenn, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Because television, in its obliging way, is enabling us to work through some of our difficulties with regard to stuff.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2014
  • The response to the investigation was swift and largely obliging.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Watson, who’s been transparent about his approach to a contract year, is happily obliging.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2026
  • But history is rarely so obliging about the timing and particulars of its dramatic turns.
    — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
  • But if Graeber couldn’t maintain an occupation of the present, perhaps the past would make a more obliging subject.
    — Walter Scheidel, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The obliging photographer was Ringo Starr.
    — Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 8 June 2026
  • Rarely does another forward group make Colorado look slow, but Minnesota seemed to delight in obliging.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 4 May 2026
  • Modi has used these levers to turn some of the biggest names in India’s news industry from barking watchdogs into obliging poodles.
    — Debasish Roy Chowdhury, Time, 3 May 2021
  • Yiannopoulos followed with screenshots of group texts with him, the dentist and West, with the latter requesting nitrous and the dentist obliging.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025
  • New York City, after all, can be a most obliging co-star to its population of unwitting actors, who are always putting on a show.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 19 June 2018
  • That flip, from obliging smart house to nightmarish funhouse, is not so far off from many of the current problems that plague contemporary smart home technology.
    — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 5 May 2023
  • Plentiful staff are ever-present and always obliging, without being obsequious.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Logan, as Wolverine is also known, turns out to be a surprisingly obliging guest, politely observant of his host’s house rules.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 26 July 2024
  • In his ever-obliging character, my dad, Patrick Baskette, gladly divulged which presents any father would love to unwrap.
    — Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 7 June 2026
  • One obliging couple captured a video, which Ortega posted to TikTok.
    — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
  • They have been bullied and obliging with horrendous individual errors.
    — Rob Tanner, The Athletic, 8 Feb. 2025

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