How to Use succor in a Sentence

succor

1 of 2 noun

• We see it as our duty to give succor to those in need.
• Will live-streams of Coldplay give anything near the same succor?
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2020
• Who would have thought that a poet could have offered succor on a day like this?
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 23 May 2017
• The scrunchy elastic-tabbed back flexes to succor heels.
  — Lauren Ingram, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
• But there are fans who really do get some succor from that rhetoric.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 June 2019
• So sometimes the traveler is asked whence will come their succor.
  — WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The Death Star succors, energizes, feeds, clothes, medicates, houses, warms, and cools us with its throbbing complexity—woe to the planets in the way of its progress.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• In these anxious times, the embattled masses are resorting to all manner of succor.
  — Andrea Sachs, The Seattle Times, 25 Dec. 2017
• At the root of such succor are Europe’s more than encouraging box-office admissions, which saw a marked uptick in late 2022 and have continued to rise into the new year.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 18 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That’s a far cry from Gatsby’s romantic Rolls, or even the adventurous camper in a Model T, let alone the car interior as succor akin to a mother’s breast.
  — Nancy A. Nichols, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2018
• 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 afternoon, Cuomo gave stressed New Yorkers succor by way of slideshows, monitoring the state’s progress in flattening the coronavirus curve.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Soft kiddie toys are cuddly, all-purpose talismans of succor and solace.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Over the centuries, there have been many thousands of hot nights from Massachusetts to Mississippi where blood and tears blended, where rape was commonplace and where no one ever came to offer succor, much less release.
  — Walter Mosley, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2018
• That power would be wasted, Professor Rogoff said, if the United States did not use its resources both to aid other nations and provide succor to the impoverished people within its own borders.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• Llamas comfort hospital patients, pooches provide succor at disaster sites and horses are used to treat sex addiction.
  — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 2 July 2017
• 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
• Over the years, Mr. Lukashenko has performed a balancing act with his foreign policy, playing the West off against Russia in an effort to preserve his independence while extracting economic succor from both.
  — New York Times, 9 Aug. 2021
• Total physical contact was essential to receive the succor offered.
  — C.d. Wright, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
• So far, no major bond investor has publicly said emerging markets should be granted temporary, let alone permanent, succor on their foreign commercial borrowings.
  — Paul Wallace, Bloomberg.com, 13 Apr. 2020

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succor

2 of 2 verb

• What gives Adams succor, even now, is a younger group of activists coming to the fore and working in new ways.
  — David Allen, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• Like many Finnish foods, it’s designed to provide succor through the long winters.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2023
• This is not the stoicism of the blues or the expansive outreach of gospel; these songs speak more of individual succor, playfulness, abandon.
  — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• Today, the fruits of their labors—a rustling, sprawling garden of uncommon palms—offer succor to travelers who can wend its paths in real life or via their laptop screens.
  — Donna Bulseco, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2023
• Butterflies whose prairies have been devoured by cornfields find succor in unkempt strips of roadside milkweed.
  — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
• If the bedsit seemed fashioned for a Barbara Pym character to nurse her hot-plate supper, and the garret to succor a starving painter or poet, the New York studio apartment, from its beginnings, promised grander things.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2020
• That philosophy has succored me through breakups, deaths and career reversals.
  — Leonard Pitts Jr, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2017
• Meanwhile, astonishing acts of love — acts for which there are really no words — transformed lives, offered succor to those facing death and began to break down stigma.
  — Washington Post, 11 May 2023
• Over the years, General Hospital continued to succor the city’s indigent.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2022
• Together, the two hold the key to some revolutionary technological breakthrough that might succor the ailing globe.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
• Trump’s venting may have been a kind of self-medication, succor after a day of unaccustomed humility and painful humiliation.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• Their research may even lead to innovations in antimicrobial properties that can succor in the imminent fearsome post-antibiotic era.
  — Prayan Pokharel, Smithsonian, 17 Aug. 2017
• Organizations that succored Israel’s powerful pro-democracy movement this year, while also recognized for innovative humanitarian work outside Israel, quickly shifted to helping fellow citizens at a moment of excruciating loss.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023
• What gives Adams succor, even now, is a younger group of activists coming to the fore and working in new ways.
  — David Allen, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• Like many Finnish foods, it’s designed to provide succor through the long winters.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2023
• This is not the stoicism of the blues or the expansive outreach of gospel; these songs speak more of individual succor, playfulness, abandon.
  — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• Today, the fruits of their labors—a rustling, sprawling garden of uncommon palms—offer succor to travelers who can wend its paths in real life or via their laptop screens.
  — Donna Bulseco, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2023
• Butterflies whose prairies have been devoured by cornfields find succor in unkempt strips of roadside milkweed.
  — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
• If the bedsit seemed fashioned for a Barbara Pym character to nurse her hot-plate supper, and the garret to succor a starving painter or poet, the New York studio apartment, from its beginnings, promised grander things.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2020
• That philosophy has succored me through breakups, deaths and career reversals.
  — Leonard Pitts Jr, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2017
• Meanwhile, astonishing acts of love — acts for which there are really no words — transformed lives, offered succor to those facing death and began to break down stigma.
  — Washington Post, 11 May 2023
• Over the years, General Hospital continued to succor the city’s indigent.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2022
• Together, the two hold the key to some revolutionary technological breakthrough that might succor the ailing globe.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
• Trump’s venting may have been a kind of self-medication, succor after a day of unaccustomed humility and painful humiliation.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• Their research may even lead to innovations in antimicrobial properties that can succor in the imminent fearsome post-antibiotic era.
  — Prayan Pokharel, Smithsonian, 17 Aug. 2017
• Organizations that succored Israel’s powerful pro-democracy movement this year, while also recognized for innovative humanitarian work outside Israel, quickly shifted to helping fellow citizens at a moment of excruciating loss.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024