solicitude

Example Sentences

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We’d already called for a Lyft so we didn’t take them up on the offer but were still touched by their solicitude.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2024

And her jurisprudence reflected a lifelong solicitude for the outsiders and the underrepresented because she knew what it was like to be invisible.

From Slate • Dec. 1, 2023

Humans’ selective solicitude for endangered species was well illustrated by George F. Will in a 2017 Washington Post column inveighing against the Endangered Species Act.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2023

Avedon wanted not only to detect the pulse, with a physician’s intimate solicitude, but also to amplify and announce it, like a town crier.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2023

He recalled his childhood, when she surrounded him with dark solicitude, wrapping him in debts of gratitude so huge that as long as he lived he would never be able to pay them back.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende