- present participle of supplicate.
supplicating
Example Sentences
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The windows do away with the plaintive or supplicating figures more common to Christian stained glass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
From noon to midnight, it is alive with the buzz of crowded restaurants, supplicating panhandlers, weaving motorcycles, and pushy vendors.
From The Verge ● Aug. 11, 2022
As I do them, moving my legs one way, my arms the other, bending and supplicating my spine, I can hear my sacral joints clicking, realigning, settling themselves, speaking to me.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2018
Mr. Iannucci is particularly good at the theater of sycophancy and at all the ways in which supplicating faces, hands and bodies can quiver in fear and with a terrible love.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2018
When Mariam had seen her, Fariba said, she had asked in a high, supplicating voice, It’s normal, isn’t it ?
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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