How to Use supplicant in a Sentence

supplicant

noun

• Quality news providers are the supplicants and the serfs.
  — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 9 July 2017
• The tenant was a supplicant lucky to get a few crumbs from the leasing table.
  — Joshua Stein, Forbes, 23 June 2021
• Javier Wong runs a culinary speakeasy: no sign and the door is locked, so supplicants must knock loudly.
  — David Holahan, courant.com, 15 Aug. 2017
• Where their paws fell, a new mythology; where their whiskers touched, a new breed of supplicants.
  — Hanya Yanagihara Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• Few supplicants [patients] in the temple are well enough to do anything but lie on their hard beds.
  — Gabriel Winant, The New Republic, 23 May 2018
• Just as the word of God has come down, the word of supplicants goes up to God, more efficaciously than any other time.
  — Bryant Rousseau, New York Times, 5 June 2016
• One of the best strategies to feel more normal about networking is to approach people as a peer, rather than a supplicant.
  — Dorie Clark, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2021
• Supplicants have been flocking to the nondescript North Sider to sit at the eight-seat sushi bar run by chef Katsu Imamura since 1988.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Apr. 2017
• There is almost always a wait, with or without a reservation, and there is almost always a long line of supplicants against the wall.
  — New York Times, 29 Oct. 2019
• This is why the wizard acts as an exorcist, never a supplicant, King explained.
  — Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• Another supplicant wanted a piece of the lottery winnings to get her driveway paved.
  — Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2021
• A group of supplicants all desperately trying to hold on to their spots on the show by effusively praising Trump -- each one trying to take it a step further than the last.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 13 June 2017
• As grain prices increased, the parishes became overwhelmed with supplicants.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2014
• A queue of supplicants was positioned strategically outside his office door, and ran down the hall.
  — Omar Waraich, The Atlantic, 28 July 2017
• The fierce competition for juicy jobs places each separate firm in the position of supplicant, service provider, and client pleaser.
  — Curbed, 17 Mar. 2022
• And during his visit, he was schooled on respecting China’s interests and played supplicant to Xi.
  — David Pierson, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
• Its efficacy, too, depends upon the purity of the heart, the goodness and sincerity of the supplicant.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Mar. 2021
• Many contracts treat the buyer as a worthless supplicant, lucky to have the opportunity to acquire the seller’s property.
  — Joshua Stein, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
• All these words strike me as vaguely offensive except for mendicant and supplicant.
  — Stephen Miller, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
• Placebo effect Besides praying to deities for career success, supplicants are seeking luck in winning the lottery.
  — Laura He, CNN, 9 June 2023
• The next day should be spent visiting the Corycian Cave, an obligatory stop for ancient supplicants after encountering the Oracle.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 9 July 2019
• Supplicants sometimes apply to specific gods for a specific requirement but in general they are appealed to as a group.
  — Jane Alexiadis, The Mercury News, 1 June 2017
• It’s of a piece with government business being conducted on Trump’s golf courses and presidential supplicants trying to curry favor by using the services of Trump hotels.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 9 July 2018
• Snuffboxes and miniature portraits were often exchanged between lovers and supplicants.
  — Gaile Robinson, star-telegram, 30 Aug. 2017
• Five centuries later, the Baal Shem Tov, founder of the Hasidic movement, compiled a rubric for interrupted prayer, breaking down the mind games that throw a supplicant off—from idle trivialities to impure impulses and personal struggles.
  — Allan Ripp, WSJ, 20 May 2021
• Instead, Christie ended up a supplicant, slaving for Trump’s transition team before finally getting murked by a Jared Kushner bent on settling family business.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 29 Apr. 2023
• The wealth accumulated by William Andrews Clark had always attracted supplicants, but the hospital's executives, doctors, and nurses would mount a full-scale 20-year campaign to persuade Huguette to hand over large chunks of her copper inheritance.
  — Meryl Gordon, Town & Country, 21 May 2014
• In Afghanistan, America is necessarily a supplicant now.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 24 Aug. 2021
• But both mendicant and supplicant have a religious connotation.
  — Stephen Miller, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
• Synonyms for beggar include hobo, pauper, tramp, vagrant, derelict, mendicant, bum, supplicant, deadbeat, borrower.
  — Stephen Miller, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024