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 paying at the desk out of this bill."
From Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck by Alger, Horatio
American women of leisure must awaken to an appreciation of the democratic idea of Noblesse Oblige.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Harper, Ida Husted
He offered him his fetich, saying: "Oblige me by giving me the change for this; it will make it easier for me to pay."
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de
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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