How to Use succor in a Sentence

succor

noun
  • We see it as our duty to give succor to those in need.
  • But there are fans who really do get some succor from that rhetoric.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 June 2019
  • Who would have thought that a poet could have offered succor on a day like this?
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 23 May 2017
  • And there’s more reason to give succor to the impatient among us.
    — David Phelan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Will live-streams of Coldplay give anything near the same succor?
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2020
  • So sometimes the traveler is asked whence will come their succor.
    — WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
  • But what if there is scant succor to be had, and our true natures are not noble but necrotic, pestilential?
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 17 Nov. 2018
  • But, where much of today’s trendy work is self-involved, Brown’s dances bring succor to the audience.
    — The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Chief among the reasons to stay the course is that succor won’t come from other geographic horizons.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Soft kiddie toys are cuddly, all-purpose talismans of succor and solace.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 24 Feb. 2018
  • But one academic links the desire to travel with warm beverages back to humans’ earliest needs for warmth and succor.
    — Nancy A. Nichols, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2018
  • In one drawing in the show, a hand is reaching down to lift another up, in a gesture of welcoming, of succor, of assistance.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The succor of small-time hubris is what good bake-offs are about—bakers driven only by that elegant, unimpeachable motive, to be the best.
    — Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • This place of succor is an extensive archaeological site now, and there is an ancient theater set right in the middle of it.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Israel has no viable alternative to the succor of the United States.
    — Shalom Lipner, Foreign Affairs, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Her act of creation results in lifeless cloth babies that cannot provide succor or even connection to their inspiration.
    — Stephanie Powell Watts, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
  • But Malone spends a lot more of the album being mad at the man in the mirror, or wanting to offer him the succor of a nice buzz that isn’t easily achieved.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 June 2022
  • Still, the longer the protests go on without substantial political change or economic succor, the more fatigue and fatalism have crept in.
    — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020
  • In the case of the fidget spinner, the temporary victory of joining in the commentary also offers succor.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 May 2017
  • Apple, at least, seems to gain succor and creative inspiration from pining for only the most nourishing kind of connection.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2020
  • In addition to providing spiritual succor to those on strike, many rabbis have also joined the picket line themselves.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The stark reality is that the country has no viable alternative to the succor of the United States.
    — Shalom Lipner, Foreign Affairs, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The rice and beans were crucial to the experience, offering succor from the chile’s needling spice, but also fortifying and delicious on their own.
    — Patricia Escárcega, Bon Appétit, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Total physical contact was essential to receive the succor offered.
    — C.d. Wright, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
  • Reba, though, was able to find some small succor during the lockdown that left her quarantining with her grieving family in Oklahoma.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2020
  • That legacy echoes in our every cell, yoking our fates to the vast unicellular realm, where creatures such as protozoans navigate threats, seek succor and sense their way from life to death.
    — Claire L. Evans, Quanta Magazine, 30 July 2025
  • His birth overshadowed by his family’s greatest tragedy, Daniel found succor in movies and willed himself into the dreamworld of Hollywood.
    — David Kamp, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
  • This book, an anthology of woe, offers a modicum of succor and hope to anyone interested in learning how gun violence is affecting our nation.
    — Katharine Coldiron, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Many of the company’s stores (though not all) allow RVs and trailers to camp in their lots, providing simplicity and succor to weary travelers.
    — Aaron Gulley, Outside Online, 27 Apr. 2018
  • As Koestler observes, crying is a signal not just of surrender but of neediness, designed to elicit succor and comfort from sympathizers.
    — Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025

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