How to Use supplicant in a Sentence
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Being a gent or a supplicant wasn’t the same as being a fool, though.
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Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
29 June 2026
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Where their paws fell, a new mythology; where their whiskers touched, a new breed of supplicants.
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Hanya Yanagihara Kyoko Hamada,
New York Times,
10 May 2023
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The tenant was a supplicant lucky to get a few crumbs from the leasing table.
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Joshua Stein,
Forbes,
23 June 2021
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Few supplicants [patients] in the temple are well enough to do anything but lie on their hard beds.
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Gabriel Winant,
The New Republic,
23 May 2018
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The visitor, the stranger, the enemy, comes as a supplicant to the killer.
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Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
22 Nov. 2024
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In his view, Congress should work with, but not be a supplicant to, the executive branch.
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John T. Shaw,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Jan. 2025
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One of the best strategies to feel more normal about networking is to approach people as a peer, rather than a supplicant.
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Dorie Clark,
WSJ,
17 Sep. 2021
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As grain prices increased, the parishes became overwhelmed with supplicants.
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Nathan Heller,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2014
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Another supplicant wanted a piece of the lottery winnings to get her driveway paved.
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Marc Fisher,
Anchorage Daily News,
19 June 2021
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All these words strike me as vaguely offensive except for mendicant and supplicant.
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Stephen Miller,
WSJ,
11 Oct. 2021
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There is almost always a wait, with or without a reservation, and there is almost always a long line of supplicants against the wall.
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New York Times,
29 Oct. 2019
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The advisee may present herself as a supplicant but end up an aggressor, demanding and scornful.
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Merve Emre,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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One of its most common tools is to write a book, or have a book written, to introduce the presidential supplicant to voters.
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Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
4 Feb. 2026
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Just as the word of God has come down, the word of supplicants goes up to God, more efficaciously than any other time.
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Bryant Rousseau,
New York Times,
5 June 2016
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The fierce competition for juicy jobs places each separate firm in the position of supplicant, service provider, and client pleaser.
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Curbed,
17 Mar. 2022
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And during his visit, he was schooled on respecting China’s interests and played supplicant to Xi.
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David Pierson,
BostonGlobe.com,
20 June 2023
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Snuffboxes and miniature portraits were often exchanged between lovers and supplicants.
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Gaile Robinson,
star-telegram,
30 Aug. 2017
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Snuffboxes and miniature portraits were often exchanged between lovers and supplicants.
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Gaile Robinson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Jan. 2024
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Supplicants sometimes apply to specific gods for a specific requirement but in general they are appealed to as a group.
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Jane Alexiadis,
The Mercury News,
1 June 2017
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When the Minnesota Board of Pardons meets, supplicants have 10 minutes to make the case for mercy.
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Photographs Todd Heisler,
New York Times,
15 Oct. 2023
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Placebo effect Besides praying to deities for career success, supplicants are seeking luck in winning the lottery.
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Laura He,
CNN,
9 June 2023
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Many contracts treat the buyer as a worthless supplicant, lucky to have the opportunity to acquire the seller’s property.
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Joshua Stein,
Forbes,
17 Sep. 2021
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Even Putin, not known for sparing the blushes of supplicants, seems embarrassed on Erdogan’s behalf.
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Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
22 Dec. 2025
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Its efficacy, too, depends upon the purity of the heart, the goodness and sincerity of the supplicant.
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Rabbi Avi Weiss,
sun-sentinel.com,
15 Mar. 2021
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But both mendicant and supplicant have a religious connotation.
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Stephen Miller,
WSJ,
11 Oct. 2021
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When leaders approach partnerships from that frame—not as supplicants but as operators of critical systems—the conversation changes.
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Richard Neal,
Forbes.com,
5 Mar. 2026
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Instead, Paulie’s trusted lieutenants move from person to person, talking with various would-be partners and supplicants, and then go back and whisper in Paulie’s ear.
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Tom Nichols,
The Atlantic,
26 May 2026
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The next day should be spent visiting the Corycian Cave, an obligatory stop for ancient supplicants after encountering the Oracle.
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Liz Alderman,
New York Times,
9 July 2019
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Supplicants have been flocking to the nondescript North Sider to sit at the eight-seat sushi bar run by chef Katsu Imamura since 1988.
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Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Apr. 2017
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Solis, as chair of the City Council’s Zoning Committee, was happy to funnel supplicants before his panel to the speaker’s firm.
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The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
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George and William used to be equals—now George is a supplicant.
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Willing Davidson,
The New Yorker,
24 June 2019
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Peled was superb in the role of supplicant, with full-bodied tone and a wide range of tonal colors.
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cleveland,
21 Oct. 2019
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One said the European Commission appeared to be trying to annex Northern Ireland and turn it into a supplicant state.
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Bloomberg.com,
28 Feb. 2018
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Yet that is happening, because Congress is too weak and supplicant to assert its constitutional power against an unhinged executive.
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Adam Serwer,
The Atlantic,
4 Mar. 2026
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This time, Trump is more of a supplicant, needing vigorous turnout from pro-gun voters to offset what many Republicans fear could be a midterm election disaster in November.
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Stephen Collinson,
CNN,
4 May 2018
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Her critics in Hong Kong derided her smiling presence in Beijing as that of a supplicant, not an autonomous leader, which illustrated the depth of the chasm between the two sides.
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Chris Buckley,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2019
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After the wonders of the cathedral itself, guests were invited to wander into the sacristy where supplicant figures were dressed in examples from its treasury of exquisite 18th century copes embroidered in real gold and silver thread.
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Hamish Bowles,
Vogue,
11 July 2017
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