SUITOR in a Sentence

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121 example sentences for SUITOR, such as:

1. She can't make up her mind which of her many suitors she should marry.
2. Prince Andrew knew Denisov from what Natasha had told him of her first suitor.
3. Of course, before the war, Will would certainly not have been an eligible suitor.
4. At the preliminary examination, it developed that he had been a suitor of the girl's.
5. It's the story of a young woman who can't make up her mind which of her many suitors she should marry.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUITOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
suitor
 n.  one who sues, petitions, or entreats; petitioner; applicant; man who is courting a woman
Classic Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
1  Upon which the delighted suitor would return home in raptures, thinking: "Here, at long last, is the sort of man so badly needed."
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
2  Yet neither on the morrow, nor on the day following, nor on the third would documents arrive at the suitor's abode.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
3  Upon that the disillusioned suitor would fly out upon the new order of things brought about by the inquiry into illicit fees, and curse both the tchinovniks and their uppish, insolent behaviour.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
4  Once upon a time," would the suitor lament, "one DID know what to do.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
5  My father has not spoken to me of a suitor, but has only told me that he has received a letter and is expecting a visit from Prince Vasili.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
6  Princess Mary's self-esteem was wounded by the fact that the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both her companions' not having the least conception that it could be otherwise.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
7  Natasha sat down and, without joining in Boris' conversation with the countess, silently and minutely studied her childhood's suitor.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XII
8  Prince Andrew knew Denisov from what Natasha had told him of her first suitor.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XV
9  Of course, before the war, Will would certainly not have been an eligible suitor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
10  Well, she would not be too eager in this case; she would give her suitor a longer taste of suspense.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
11  Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-venders; thus the captains to Zenobia; and in the damp cave over gnawed bones the hairy suitor thus protested to the woman advocate of matriarchy.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
12  At the preliminary examination, it developed that he had been a suitor of the girl's.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
13  Sam approached with as good a determination to pay court as did ever suitor after a vacant place at St. James' or Washington.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  Not long after a suitor appeared, and as he appeared to be very rich and the miller could see nothing in him with which to find fault, he betrothed his daughter to him.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM
15  When old Mr Fox was dead, the wolf came as a suitor, and knocked at the door, and the cat who was servant to Mrs Fox, opened it for him.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE WEDDING OF MRS FOX
Example Sentence:
1  When her stern father would not relent and allow her to marry Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett eloped with her suitor.
2  If American is not interested in acquiring US Airways, a different suitor may also come from an unexpected place.
3  She can't make up her mind which of her many suitors she should marry.
4  It's the story of a young woman who can't make up her mind which of her many suitors she should marry.