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How to use obliging in a sentence

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And this open-handed warmth equally encompasses the friendly, obliging ship's crew.
The nun, who had observed me heedfully, asked me, in an obliging tone, why I was so much afflicted.
This is where the Beeb had a less obliging audience for fielding its questions.
Tommie was regarded among all who knew him as a very decent and obliging man.
In a measure clearly aimed at Lauderdale, Parliament passed an act obliging all office holders to denounce the Covenants.
A cheerful and obliging man, his ready smile was a true indication of his gentle character.
Next the hardware store behind the clock-tower, a veritable Aladdin's cave, always very helpful and obliging.
In addition, this obliging plant seeds itself freely, so the number of clumps will gradually increase over the years.
However, the pleasant and obliging staff willingly produced a jug of hot water.
Kevin will best be remembered as an obliging and jocular butcher who ran the family business at 82 Main Street for 65 years.
He took up the job as caretaker of Mount Sion Secondary School, and his obliging manner made him very popular with teachers and pupils alike.
The very happy and obliging young service ladies were resplendent in snappy white shorts and tops.
By the age of five her mother was happy to hand over the little girl's care whenever she could to an obliging friend.
Most obliging and affable we wish him a good finish to the handballing year.
So the little chap, helped by his obliging Washington buddies, is up to his old tricks again.
The enemy is being very obliging by saving them the journey and coming to them now.
I have had my back waxed once before, in an experimental fashion, by an obliging female friend.
Of course you could borrow one from an obliging neighbour, but they are then in the same precarious position.
He tried to use it on an obliging cow named Amica, but she hightailed it, and the rest of the herd followed her.
Despite the introduction 20 years ago of the law obliging front-seat occupants of a vehicle to wear a seatbelt, around 15 per cent of passengers still fail to belt up.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They are ingenious and nimble, much addicted to indolence, obliging to strangers, but implacable when once disobliged.
And yet with all this spice of epicurism and apparent selfishness, he was liberal, kind-hearted, and obliging.
Lady E. Had you not better repeat in your own words, Mr. blandish, all the obliging things you have said of this gentleman?
The appeal was comprehensible, and the charioteer, assiduously obliging, fell to posture of checking none too volant steeds.
Then when he had walked in the rain all the long way to the shopping centre, George, the barber, had not been a bit obliging.
He was a careful and skilful driver, and a man of most obliging disposition.
Upon this, I wrote to you, Sir, and you were so obliging as to solicit passports for me.
At the moment Mr. Rickman did not look like obliging Mr. soper with anything.
The portress at the house in the Rue Montmartre is the most obliging woman in the world.
Whereupon the obliging young man referred to a watch pocket in his plaid vest, and nodded with a great deal of intelligence.
Then, in an obliging spirit, she called to her and offered to watch over her things.
He said, coolly, that he would relieve me of the duty, but I declined his obliging offer.
He's as clever as you please, and with it all as obliging and unspoilt as possible.
The Nanticoke hesitated to accept the obliging offer, alleging that the wife was so very small, and had four legs.
Mademoiselle Cormon did not possess in her person an obliging auxiliary to her desires.
Is free-hearted and obliging and I never knew of his having an enemy.
He is a bright, brownish little fellow, agile like a monkey, clean-shaven like an actor, and obliging like a born courtier.
They are civil and obliging, and thoroughly inured to the interviewer.
At Tarbes they are an endurable class, and are exceedingly obliging.
You have always been obliging, and even considerate toward us.
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