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
  • That means the city doesn’t solicit bids from other firms for the construction portion of the project.
    Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Along the way, Couch said the city would solicit input from residents.
    Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The world is full of information—some solicited and some not.
    Gregory Ostrowski, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Few actors solicit more warmth than Bob Odenkirk these days.
    Chicago Tribune, oregonlive, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Jones was charged with soliciting a minor to pose for nude photos in 2003.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 6 Sep. 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
  • Amy Kurtz, the fund’s president, said those projects solicit donations to the fund and direct how the money is spent.
    New York Times, 29 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • Daley said the city plans to solicit bids from construction firms for the project at the end of July and award a contract in September.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 5 July 2022
  • 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
  • Le, who has owned his building since March 2020, wants to solicit opinions from his neighbors.
    Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton, The Denver Post, 21 May 2024
  • Elliott will have a little less than two months to solicit votes from shareholders large and small.
    Rohan Goswami, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The menu of tipping options could be designed to solicit higher tip amounts.
    Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 1 June 2022
  • The plan is for Mensah to solicit feedback from NBA teams about his readiness for the league, and that process remains ongoing.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2022
  • The patrons hire an architect and solicit the best design.
    Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
  • 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
  • Lambesis infamously spent nearly three years in prison after pleading guilty to soliciting an undercover cop to murder his then-wife and relaunched the band in 2018 after his release from prison.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The Bee Cave Police Department was in charge of issuing soliciting permits under the original ordinance.
    Vivien Ayers, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024

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