How to Use solicit in a Sentence

solicit

verb
  • The center is soliciting donations to help victims of the earthquake.
  • The company is soliciting bids from various firms.
  • The newspaper's editors want to solicit opinions from readers.
  • The prostitutes were arrested for soliciting customers.
  • Special interest groups are soliciting Congress for funds.
  • The organization is soliciting for donations.
  • The organization is soliciting new memberships.
  • Other niceties do not need to be solicited.
    — Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Each time, this question solicited a smile.
    — Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Don’t forget to solicit new points of view as well — customers are, of course, a great source.
    — Perttu Nihti, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • Canales called a play that solicited an empty backfield.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The posting goes on to solicit funds to pay for the legal action.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
  • She was told that the police do not call residents to solicit funds.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2021
  • The world is full of information—some solicited and some not.
    — Gregory Ostrowski, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Almost half the money he's raised goes to solicit more money.
    — Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 17 June 2026
  • Elliott will have a little less than two months to solicit votes from shareholders large and small.
    — Rohan Goswami, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The city cannot solicit or approve bids until the budget is approved.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2026
  • That means the city doesn’t solicit bids from other firms for the construction portion of the project.
    — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The menu of tipping options could be designed to solicit higher tip amounts.
    — Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 1 June 2022
  • The hearing in Detroit kicked off the group's statewide tour to solicit input on the draft maps.
    — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Along the way, Couch said the city would solicit input from residents.
    — Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2022
  • And, yet, laughter—or, at least, comics’ onstage attempts to solicit it—always tries to find a way.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2020
  • These crews go door-to-door, using pressure tactics to solicit business.
    — Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Standing in the roadway to solicit a ride is not listed as an exception.
    — Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Teams were set up in each state to solicit entries and narrow them down to five finalists, says Belle.
    — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The policy does not require the board to solicit feedback from the public.
    — John Gordon and Clare Diegel, Star Tribune, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Self-tape auditions are solicited, with callbacks held via Zoom.
    — Daniel Vaillancourt, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2026
  • The intent of the text is to solicit a reply, to trick the recipient into a chat.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
  • The victims were ordered to work long hours without pay, and pressured to solicit high fundraising amounts.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The officials wanted to break up the contract into three parts to solicit new bids, the people said.
    — Paul Mozur, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025

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