oblige
Example Sentences
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Oblige, and Apple will reward you by populating the default “For You” tab in the app with a cleanly arranged stream of recent stories culled from the outlets you’ve specified.
From Slate • Sep. 18, 2015
Though Noblesse Oblige is obviously the definitive work on the subject, the controversy really began with a learned paper, published in Helsinki by Philologist Alan S. C. Ross of the University of Birmingham.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oblige me by not telling any one that I—we have anything to do with providing for the child.
From A Life Sentence A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline
Oblige me, Captain Harvey; take that boy into our hotel, it is only just round the corner; make him take off his dripping jacket, and give him some of your sailor's stuff.
From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Aguilar, Grace
Oblige me, dearest Clara! by sending Helen to your dressing-room for a small packet of very important papers which I left on the chimney-piece.
From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Trollope, Mrs
Vocabulary lists containing oblige
List 2
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Essential English Vocabulary, List 1
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Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I A Woman?" (1863)
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