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How to use suitors in a sentence

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Both companies have been mentioned as possible suitors, but most analysts say that's wishful thinking.
Ebookers admitted in September that it had been holding takeover talks with a number of potential suitors.
Oinomaos had invited suitors to vie for Hippodameia by competing with him in a chariot race.
In the show, a babelicious young stockbroker named Hayley is asked to choose a lover from a group of 20 masked suitors.
Eager suitors are invited to write Rowland care of her maximum security penitentiary.
She had held sway over a dozen eligible suitors, eventually marrying into a professor's family despite her own lack of education.
She used the death of her mother to avoid the boys her own age, telling all would-be suitors that she had to take care of her poor bereft father.
He was billeted at her home where her seven brothers had hitherto protected her from any approach by potential suitors.
Pretty clothes and pretty faces are only a mask on the fierce games of love and hate warring between wives and mistresses, suitors and fathers.
Since it was the day after the great ball, all the suitors and nobles with rank were still sleeping.
After that, you may expect to be swarmed by suitors, but that is normal for a young duchess as you will be.
Athena begins to make the suitors scatter like cattle stampeding from a hornet.
However he hasn't counted on how far Bianca's suitors will go to gain her fair hand in marriage.
Both suitors seem confident that marriage to a shrew would prove even more humiliating than submitting to the pillory or a public whipping.
Scylla had once been a beautiful girl pursued by many suitors before she was transformed to a monster.
He expected that the suitors who would pursue his sister would be men of great wealth and status in Umbria.
Penelope does not sleep much and prays to Artemis that she be killed rather than marry one of the suitors.
There was an array of suitors and a close relationship with her cousin, David Scott Mitchell.
As a result of the removal of romance from marriage, suitors are judged, not by their love for a woman, but by how well they can provide for her.
He dissuaded many suitors from pursuing her by telling them she had consumption and wouldn't make a suitable wife for anyone.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There was no annal in the family letters of his name, although other rejected suitors were mentioned freely.
Already you have for suitors the chief ones of the land throughout Phaeacia, where you too were born.
Then it was that suitors caught a glimpse of their future brides, and received glances which bespake love.
Even now, shopworn as she was, Gloria could have a fairly wide range of suitors should something happen to him.
Her nets were so well laid that the luckless suitors were all caught, and succumbed to the test she applied to them without their knowledge.
Telemachus gave him no heed, but sate silently watching his father, expecting every moment that he would begin his attack upon the suitors.
Hear me, men of Ithaca, and I speak more particularly to the suitors, for I see mischief brewing for them.
If Ulysses is the man he then was these suitors will have a short shrift and a sorry wedding.
He went moodily home, and found the suitors flaying goats and singeing pigs in the outer court.
Westminster Hall itself is a shady solitude where nightingales might sing, and a tenderer class of suitors than is usually found there, walk.
We had heard it rumored that there were some suitors for mammy's hand.
I'm not expecting all potential suitors to have a faultless, wide-ranging knowledge of past participles and reflexive pronouns or anything.
Poor Kelly Osbourne reckons she's too gobby to get a man and often scares off potential suitors with her outspoken ways.
Yet they all are his, suitors for his notice, petitioners to his faculties that they will come out and take possession.
And this maid with as many suitors as Penelope, is she very beautiful?
For two years she saw suitors almost every evening.For several weeks the tall dark girl and the doctor were together almost every day.
I avoided my many suitors, and escaped from the theatre by a back-door.
The death of her father and mother and the rich acres of land that had come down to her had set a train of suitors on her heels.
How comes it that you are so lamentably less valiant now that you are on your own ground, face to face with the suitors in your own house?
I would obey you, but the Achaeans, and more particularly the wicked suitors, are hindering me that I cannot do so.
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