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How to use succor in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word succor? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The mayor, fumbling for words of succor at a press conference, had suggested that God's will was somehow behind those who got out alive.
I had heard that the article gave succor to Christianist arguments against science.
At every level of society a person looks to family and kin for both social identity and succor.
We also know what cabinet ministers promised to succor them in their hour of need.
The bond was strengthened because individuals persecuted by the authorities could seek succor and solace from the Church.
For Maud Martha, the house serves dual roles as the site of both her distress and her succor.
He should not let bureaucracy stand in the way of extending aid and kindness, food and succor to those in distress.
Such attention comes too late to offer any succor or comfort to the families, friends, and co-workers mourning the dead.
The human soul is an ocean tossed by storms of passion, deep and bottomless in its need for succor and nourishment.
In contrast, a mammalian infant depends on the separation cry for succor and security.
The field hospital should be for the soldier a place of refuge, a concrete manifestation of the extent to which the country will go to succor those who have served.
And when at last it is perceived that such pity cannot lead to effectual succor, common sense bids the soul be rid of it.
It offers succor to late bloomers still unpublished well into their late twenties.
In a culture increasingly beholden to euphemism and the self-serving denial of objective reality, I often find myself turning to the works of the people on this list for succor and inspiration.
Athletic or artistic ability is not necessarily a genetic trait, but translation and succor of Russian literary all-stars seems to run in Lowenfeld's family.
Producers, who live or die on the accuracy of their reading of the public mood, have registered the current climate of fear and exploited our need for succor.
Men go to God when they are sore bestead, Pray to him for succor.
Examples from Classical Literature
She must have heard and have known that people were there, trying to succor her.
They dashed after their new leader with only an instinct for shelter and succor.
If one was attacked, would the others fly to its succor, and spend their blood and money in its defense?
No hope of succor gleamed through the dead black of the death sentence hanging over him.
Those were the knightly days of our profession, when we only bore arms to succor the distressed, and not to fill men's lamp-feeders.
What are kings made for, save to succor the feeble and distressed?
They were to act in concert, also, against all interlopers, and to succor each other in case of danger.
We slept five times instead of thrice and still no succor came.
But it were shame that a king should know fear, and shame that belted knight should withhold his hand where be such as need succor.
Finding themselves, though thus supported, unequal to the undertaking, they once more had recourse to the dangerous expedient of introducing the succor of foreign arms.
Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, for the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?
For this reason she conserved her energies and her voice until she could see that they had approached near enough to the camp to attract the succor she craved.
I was in the very first act of detailing an Expedition to succor him, when the cord was assailed with a series of such frantic jerks that I could hardly keep hold of it.
Always had he depended upon his own prowess and resourcefulness, nor had there ever been since the days of Kala any to answer an appeal for succor.
This succor, which came to Porthos at the moment in which he was attacked in his gastronomic hopes, inspired much gratitude in the Musketeer toward the procurator's wife.
Some poor devil at the unknown other end might be in dire need of succor.
I am very fortunate indeed to have stumbled so providentially upon succor.
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