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.
• The posting goes on to solicit funds to pay for the legal action.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
• The flier was soliciting people to join a game-night group.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
• Though no one has come through yet, the group has solicited everyone from Quincy Jones to Discogs.
  — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2024
• ProPublica and the Post-Gazette obtained copies of the results of four tests carried out in 2021 that were solicited by Philips.
  — Jonathan D. Salant, ProPublica, 6 Oct. 2023
• Toward the end of the first season of All There Is, Cooper solicited voicemails from viewers to share their own stories.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2023
• The board solicited proxies to keep the current board in place, and to prevent adjourning the meeting to another date in time.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
• ProPublica and the Post-Gazette obtained copies of four tests carried out in 2021 that were solicited by Philips.
  — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2023
• Each month, Moore Aloha solicits essays through a prompt.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• While the status was in limbo, Night Fall was not allowed to solicit donations.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2023
• The group sent emails shortly after the vote passed soliciting funds to further cut down on the GOP’s House majority.
  — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2023
• Officials will also decide whether to solicit bids for a short-term lease at the property.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 2 May 2023
• Federal labor law protects workers' right to solicit union support in the workplace while off the clock, the NLRB says.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
• We have been swamped with similar stories, and are now soliciting more.
  — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2023
• Fandango was one of at least five movies Saxon was alleged to have used to solicit investments.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023
• The county began soliciting community input on the plan at meetings in the fall of 2021.
  — Lia Russell, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2023
• Horne said the state board should establish a working group to solicit more feedback from Arizona stakeholders in the meantime.
  — Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 26 Mar. 2024
• For Trump, soliciting votes and issuing threats to the legitimacy of the democratic process are now often the same thing.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2023
• The agency is soliciting feedback from scientists and the public online through the end of December.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2023
• The pastor who, with family and friends, solicited credit-repair clients online, only to rack up charges on credit cards in their names and run up millions in debts.
  — Mya Frazier, New York Times, 7 June 2023
• Buzbee's rant on social media could be part of a larger strategy to solicit public sympathy by claiming to be a victim of the press.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2023
• One suggestion, according to the Times, is to have the President attend an Eras Tour concert to solicit the loyalty of her fans.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
• Eversource does not solicit door-to-door or on the phone on behalf of third-party energy suppliers.
  — Staff, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2023
• The ad server identifies when an impression is available for sale, solicits bids and chooses the winning offer.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024