How to Use solicit in a Sentence

solicit

verb
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  • The center is soliciting donations to help victims of the earthquake.
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the Chicago case, filed in March, Cloth is accused of working with two salesmen to solicit investments in a series of film projects.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 13 May 2024
  • In a state that so often denied his father because of the color of his skin, even White people were soliciting him for help.
    — Michael S. Williamson, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
  • 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
  • The $6 billion enterprise value includes $1.43 billion of net debt, per a memo sent to NBA owners to solicit votes to approve the deal, a copy of which was viewed by Sportico.
    — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 24 June 2024
  • Demay said that his son was solicited by a man, posing as a woman, who asked him to send compromising photos.
    — Nikole Killion, CBS News, 1 June 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
  • This year, that meant lobbyists could not solicit or make campaign contributions from February 7 through May 8.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2024
  • However this time around, the district solicited bids from outside organizations to take over their market operations.
    — Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 9 July 2024

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