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
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Dear Bob, we have been college friends, And friendship’s still the same; Now only tell me who she is— Oblige me with her name.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
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 us at least with the name and address of the maker.'
From Miss Cayley's Adventures by Allen, Grant
Vocabulary lists containing oblige
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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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