How to Use solicitude in a Sentence

solicitude

noun
  • And yet these judges evince far more solicitude for former convicts’ right to bear arms than their right to vote.
    — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 2017-05-09
  • And then, my solicitude surprised no one, not me, not him, not our friends and family.
    — Carolita Johnson, Longreads, 2018-06-21
  • Along with the martinis (and the solicitude of his wife), his fame, which came young, preserved him like an onion.
    — New York Times, 2021-02-05
  • Not to lord victory over others, but to show solicitude and modesty in triumph.
    — Greg Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 2021-05-25
  • His solicitude aside, Vargas hunted those men to the exclusion of all else.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 2023-01-08
  • Frederick’s solicitude for Agatha puts him on a collision course with his dad.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 2019-11-11
  • Yet there are way too many endearing acts and instances of real solicitude to dismiss him as an irredeemable jerk.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 2019-08-14
  • Nor has Texas shown much solicitude for the businesses that provide capital to help its economy grow.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2021-11-05
  • In some ways, his circumstances seem even less worthy of judicial solicitude than his predecessors’ were.
    — The Economist, 2019-12-16
  • The court’s conservative majority is not known for its solicitude toward death-row prisoners, to say the least.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 2020-11-19
  • In this story of middle-age reckoning and teenage awakening, there are plenty of moments of selfishness dressed up as solicitude.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 2022-06-10
  • Progressive politicians are doing the opposite, blighting the lives of the law-abiding with their warped solicitude for the criminal few.
    — William P. Barr, WSJ, 2022-10-26
  • But this international wave of solicitude seems different in important ways, not least because of its context.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 2022-03-25
  • Touched by their solicitude (turns out Gary only suffered a minor concussion), Rachel invites the duo to her eatery, and a friendship commences.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2022-12-07
  • Acosta’s solicitude for those 21 laggards should be weighed against the fact that today’s federal minimum wage is close to a historical nadir for the U.S.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 2019-07-09
  • Moreover, the president’s determination that an exercise of his own power was unconstitutional warrants the court’s solicitude.
    — Josh Blackman, National Review, 2018-01-10
  • If America’s policy toward China for the first four decades since normalization in 1979 can be described as benevolent solicitude, this new policy is one of flinty reciprocity.
    — John Pomfret, The Denver Post, 2017-02-07

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