How To Use Courting In A Sentence

He shouldn't be courting her let alone possibly wanting to marry her.
More an Irish sprite than anything, Mairead leapt, twirled, and 'arabesqued' her way across the stage courting us through her violin. Dr. Cara Barker: The Beauty of Giving Your Whole Heart
Get to know your senior pastor: take some cues from courting. Christianity Today
It's rejected the Pacific Islands Forum but some of the countries its courting such as Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, even Papua New Guinea, could all bring something to the table here and I don't think we have really trialed that, Jones stated. Australia Urged to Rethink Fiji Ties
Both have in the past been accused of courting publicity. Times, Sunday Times

The Germans were, therefore, engaged actively in courting favour with that Movement all over the world. Matthew Yglesias » Israel Politics Circa 1947
That said, his maverick tendencies are becoming almost a trademark of the man, and I'd wager a punt or two that he'll be courting controversy again before we next go to the polls.
Drawn primarily from the Metropolitan's collections, the exhibition features more than fifty instruments from small personal types such as panpipes and courting whistles to larger forms played at performances heard by the entire community, such as the exquisitely carved temple drums of the Austral Islands or the imposing sacred slit gongs of New Guinea. NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art
So what is the point of courting such unpopularity over tax credits for so little saving? Times, Sunday Times
He has been courting the director, hoping to get the leading role in the play.
Jones became obsessed with regality, parading around Paris in dress uniform, taking audiences with Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and courting French debutantes.
A low-performing organization that continues to devote scarce time and energy to the pursuit of remote goals is courting disappointment.
Two multi-colored gold and mother-of-pearl rococo nécessaires, each fitted with gold sewing implements in the rim and in a gold-mounted mother-of-pearl tray, the cover of one featuring a courting couple, of the other, a pastoral couple.
There is no courting, no sweet talk or handholding.
But public service broadcasting is about making mistakes, taking risks and courting unpopularity.
He has said nothing about the party's actions in the election campaign because he does not want to alienate forces whose support he is courting.
If he thinks he can remain in power by force he is courting disaster.
When Walter was courting India, he spoke to her one night of Ruskin (she was impressed), but by middle age he reads only mystery novels, ‘as soporifics.’
Their cowardly producers make a big deal out of courting our support and money, but they never deliver the goods.
Formal rituals of courting, chaperonage, and arranged marriages strictly governed relations between the sexes.
Irish side when courting her as a humorous short cut to a quasi familiarity, for you may call a girl "acushla" and "Ellin darlint" when otherwise you are fully aware, but for the Irish of it, she would have to be referred to as Miss Dodworth. By Advice of Counsel
She said: ‘I was courting a local boy who was a member of the cricket club, so I began work in the tea room - and there I stayed for the next 38 years,’ she said.
In echoing Debbies previous comment on making dulce de lache without courting danger and death from a boiled unopened can by baking the sweetened condensed milk in a foil covered pie pan set in a bain-marie, let me just say I make a fab dulce de lache by setting the oven to 400 degrees and not doing a darn thing for an hour, then take it out and stir. Dulce de leche cheesecake squares | smitten kitchen
If he thinks he can remain in power by force he is courting disaster.
So Charlie's courting dance begins and just listen to Thelma 's laughter. 52449_CLARA
We Homo sapiens are fascinated by observing our fellow creatures as they go about their daily grind - eating, sleeping, courting.
Both Democratic and Republican parties are courting former supporters of Ross Perot.
He has been courting a select band of senior journalists. Times, Sunday Times
A number of impressive literary salons have come to life there, courting some of the biggest names in English literature. Times, Sunday Times
Probst says that the Kent Roberts chair, "Untitled," which mimics an old-fashioned courting bench, is a favored spot for visitors to sneak a smooch. SFGate: Top News Stories
And yet, despite William's desire to ‘provoke soft emotions,’ we have no evidence she ever offered hers unguardedly during the time they were courting.
Both Democratic and Republican parties are courting former supporters of Ross Perot.
This is what a courting / rutting male guinea pig does.
Both sites have been courting influencers to create more video content with new features and sponsorship models.
He rewinds the tape to replay a passage about a girl he was courting at the time, and the ineffable sadness that creeps over his face is heartbreaking.
A low-performing organization that continues to devote scarce time and energy to the pursuit of remote goals is courting disappointment.
Tales were told of playing hopscotch, tig and gerallies, of home births, courting and marriages.
Another contributing factor may be that some gay men pursue high-risk sexual behavior (i.e., deliberately courting danger or engaging in unprotected anal intercourse) precisely because it enhances their sexual enjoyment. 17 The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England
Do the same and, just like her, you may just be courting hurt and resentment when your overtures are rejected. Times, Sunday Times
For many animals, an entire biobehavioral cascade - courting, conception and gestation - is timed to ensure spring births.
The two had been courting for quite some time and knew that their relative strengths were a good match.
A single man's reputation as a "tripper" influenced the advice that married heavies like Mary Louise might give to him, or to a woman he might be courting. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
No doubt she will immediately begin calling attention to and "disrobing" Obama's about-face on those core left-wing issues ... in addition to aggressively courting the disgruntled Obama-primary-voters who voice their discontent of the presumptive Democratic nominee (daily and by the thousands) where it counts most: Bloggersville. McKinney Poised to Challenge Obama For Left-Wing and Black Voters
Its listing took place in a blaze of publicity, courting small investors to jump on the bandwagon. Times, Sunday Times
A low-performing organization that continues to devote scarce time and energy to the pursuit of remote goals is courting disappointment.
Going after the lifestyler meant backing off on courting hard-core outdoor enthusiasts.
For those wineries who are willing to become more proactive in courting customers in the ways that THE CUSTOMER PREFERS to be communicated with such as social media, this could work to their great advantage by creating long-term relationships and winery brands that aren't so easily dismissed or forgotten. Will Governor Paterson's Budget Mean the End of the New York Wine & Grape Foundation?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former ice-skating champion Katarina Witt were among those courting a visiting International Olympic Committee delegation this week as the Bavarian city vies against South Korea's Pyeongchang and Annecy, France, to host the 2018 Winter Olympics. Munich's Olympic Hopes Face Wrath From Locals
For Beijing, however, the carrier's short-term capabilities are less important than its symbolic significance, especially for Communist Party leaders courting military support ahead of a leadership change next year. China Flexes Naval Muscle
A new-married man, when a pickthank friend of his, to curry favour, had showed him his wife familiar in private with a young gallant, courting and dallying, Anatomy of Melancholy
Among the lawyers profiled is Mary Hutchings Reed, author of a recent novel, “Courting Kathleen Hannigan.” Lady Law is Not Entirely Inflexible
Couture fashion courting the cut-throat world of the seedy mafia and danger too.
I'm fed up with this convenient courting of the pink pound - I don't want to be equal just because I'm financially valuable!
In word and picture, Clinton has been relentless as she goes after Obama while courting the superdelegates who could decide the nominee.
If he had his way he'd spend his days courting and writing poetry from sunup until sundown.
He has been courting a select band of senior journalists. Times, Sunday Times
John is courting Mary
They might be silly, or courting danger but are not high treason. THE HITLER-HESS DECEPTION
Both Democratic and Republican parties are courting former supporters of Ross Perot.
It does not help matters that the series--where the meaty head of a drunken king lies uneasy, where plotters are overplotting and courtiers go a-courting in mutters--proceeds in a style that bears all the most punishing hallmarks of close fidelity to its literary source. Slate Magazine
The heritage is authentic: while the opportunist ploughboy was penning those lines, he was also courting the favour of every belted earl in the peerage.
So McCain assiduously is courting economic and social conservatives, some of them skeptics who remember his jibes from before. McCain firm on Iraq war despite cost to candidacy
It was suggested that female spiders, by cannibalizing courting males, have actively selected for small male size.
Zeno used to invite those who called the haughtiness of Perikles a mere courting of popularity and affectation of grandeur, to court popularity themselves in the same fashion, since the acting of such a part might insensibly mould their dispositions until they resembled that of their model. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I
he has been actively courting trust members and numerous wealthy supporters of the team in recent days.
While courting Jeremy's mother in the fifties, he sewed her a dress for every date they had.
The White Oleander lensman is courting British actors Grint and Pattinson for the lead role, as well as Pride and Prejudice star Rupert Friend, according to a report from London’s Daily Star. Robert Pattinson Uma Thurman Sex Scene “Bel Ami”
Companies that fail to adapt to economic conditions by carrying an oversized and expensive staff may be courting the ultimate job-killer: outright failure.
Effective, too, is Mare Winningham as Sheila, a mentally disabled woman whom Norman is courting with irresistible naivete.
Opener ‘Cara Mia’ begins with innocuous acoustic strumming, before a trebly guitar line precedes the metronome tick of the drums, and a coffeehouse performance turns into a professional courting.
The life assurer has been courting interest in the stake as part of a disposal programme. Times, Sunday Times
Though I knew I would be courting health risks, I decided there was only one way to find out: try it myself, and see what it did.
It's courting disaster to go into the mountains without proper weatherproof clothing.
ABC's George Stephanopoulos called this a "hand grenade" and said Huckabee was demonstrating that he was not going to be "outmaneuvered" by Palin when it came to courting conservatives. Undefined
I can recall talk among my workmates about confession and confessors at a time when most of us were courting.
Do the same and, just like her, you may just be courting hurt and resentment when your overtures are rejected. Times, Sunday Times
By restructuring the business and then courting a buyer, he has grown it tenfold. Times, Sunday Times
Then what signifies calling every moment upon the devil, and courting his friendship, since you find how scurvily he uses you. The Vicar of Wakefield
His business was overshadowed by fellow Italian designer Gianni Versace who made his name courting Hollywood starlets as clotheshorses for his provocative looks. For Roberto Cavalli,
I shelved the oddity, smiled, located Sophie Brandau in the glittering throng, whispered to Tye to have somebody spill a little vino rosso on the lovely Sophie’s dress, caught up a silver tray — gadrooned, my favourite style — and briskly went to start my compulsory courting. The Great California Game
Both parties are courting this constituency like a nerd trying to con a cheerleader into attending the senior prom.
Months of courting the chancellor appear to have paid off for him, as Mr Brown is understood to have demanded he stay in his job.
It would have made more sense with Tony Buswell as leader, but trying to pull a swiftie on a retreaded Colin Barnett was courting disaster. On Line Opinion - Latest Articles
Both have in the past been accused of courting publicity. Times, Sunday Times
According to this article from Slate by Ann Louise Bardach, John Kerry has to walk a very fine line in courting all the generations of the Cuban community; the old guard going back to the Bay of Pigs, the Marielistas from 1980, and the following generation of young entrepreneurs whose only connection with Cuba is the dose of cafe con leche they get every morning. April 2004
Once the McCoys had outtricked Devil Anse and had stolen his favorite son Jonse away while he was courting Rosanna. Blue Ridge Country
USA Today found it ‘a gripping film’, while Variety opined that ‘once again, Damon scores in the title role by never courting audience sympathy and playing his all-American good looks against the hard-shell brutality of the character’.
It was a place of pebbled walkways, pagodas, stone lanterns, a waterfall, and a wishing well where families and courting couples could give voice to their dreams.
She begins to correspond with club members and, after deciding to visit them, becomes enmeshed in their lives – though a handsome American publishing tycoon is courting her back in London. A Totally Unauthorized Reading Group Guide ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,’ a Novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows « One-Minute Book Reviews
We have the song of the peasant girl impatiently awaiting the country fair at which she is to shine in all the glory of "new cauf leather shoon" and white stockings, or declaring her intention of escaping from a mother who "scaulds and flytes" by marrying the sweetheart who comes courting her on "Setterday neets. Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems
When we demand the government take action in a field we no nothing about we are courting disaster.
So what is the point of courting such unpopularity over tax credits for so little saving? Times, Sunday Times
Whilst the Liberal Democrats cannot rule out a pact with Labour if a hung parliament occurred, it is important to make sure that at the moment we distance ourself from the courting that is currently taking place by both Labour and the Tories. Oh no, not the cut vs investment line again Brown! « My Political Ramblings…
More mornings than not, I'd sit down to a stack of work and find myself unable to focus, unwilling to try, and not particularly heedful about any consequences I might be courting. Bill Heavey: Shed Hunting and Divorce
By restructuring the business and then courting a buyer, he has grown it tenfold. Times, Sunday Times
However, I think I am hardly courting controversy if I say he is no oil painting.
Only by courting controversy has she managed to enjoy the halogen warmth of media attention.
The courting process had not begun well. Times, Sunday Times
Ironically, Byron says, courting a jail sentence may hardly be worth the risk.
This is referred to as ‘deliberately courting the risk’.
Each individual, in its own compartment of a large vivarium behaves like a dominant, selecting high perches and courting when a female is introduced.
This is why Mitt Romney was the least dangerous of the Republican field because he understands reality despite being completely shameless in courting the primary electorate. Matthew Yglesias » The Thunder and the Laughter, the Last Thing They Remember
On the contrary, our current courting practices - if they can be called that - yield an increasing number of those aging coquettes, as well as scores of unsettled bachelors.
I have to tell you, it worries me that you take care of such a beautiful girl, when you are courting my sister.
What is so puzzling is why Brown is going out of his way to stick his fingers up the nostrils of the electorate at a moment when he needs all the help he can get in courting it. Archive 2008-06-15
Both have in the past been accused of courting publicity. Times, Sunday Times
The mahatma of the title, is helping Jack and Charley learn about their prospective brides (each is courting the other's sister) by offering to "tear your astral form from its sublunary habitation and send it gasping through the empyrean. The woe of an aspiring genius.
When we consider that he was even then courting Angelina, his hardihood is a little surprising. The Grimke Sisters
Both have in the past been accused of courting publicity. Times, Sunday Times
He had hoped to challenge her by courting black voters, but their support is split.
Having spent a lifetime avidly courting publicity, Paul has suddenly become secretive.
He holds regular weekly clinics, he is probably more in contact with constituents than any other councillor around, and he has a way of courting the media that not many others have.
When he was courting Gertrude, he was a handsome man and a fine dancer.
However, the salad 'nicoise' I remember best was at an expensive restaurant in South Yarra during our early courting days; a time when swanky eating places go with the territory along with arthouse movies, wasting entire mornings or afternoons drinking caffe lattes and eating carrot cake in cafes and staying at B&Bs with frilly curtains, gingham tablecloths and hosts who just about sit in your lap at breakfast. Archive 2006-11-01
John McCain courting the hispanic vote is like David Duke courting the NAACP endorsement in his presidential runs. McCain courts Hispanic voters
[3530] The whole nation beyond all other mortal men, is most given to banqueting and feasts; for they prolong them many hours together, with dainty cheer, exquisite music, and facete jesters, and afterwards they fall a dancing and courting their mistresses, till it be late in the night. Anatomy of Melancholy
The birds are looking distinctly broody, and there's been a pair of over-sexed hedge sparrows doing a bit of heavy courting outside my window all day long.
He would never sense the spirit, the gaiety in courting a young damsel.
But Thorn had come courting, playing a delicate game, and he had to remind himself to downshift his rage, keep Janey's face out of his head. OFF THE CHART
But more importantly, it's about being smart, having a personality that is agreable to the company you're courting, and having a communication style that is agreeable to the company/industry as well. Why aren't there more investment bankers?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
But as a very rough approximation, avoiding pain and courting pleasure is indeed the way we act.
Why would a credit lineup supplier disdain a credit lineup employment after defrayal so often clip, strength and money on courting and recruiting new customers? Shaister Miester Do Da
Some people take crazy risks because they get a thrill from courting danger.
He turned to the York Cook Book of 1897 for a courting cake, traditionally made by young girls for their betrothed.
Its listing took place in a blaze of publicity, courting small investors to jump on the bandwagon. Times, Sunday Times
And when the boy playing Raoul began to romance me - or, at least, my character - I focussed on his piquant, if somewhat annoying, courting and pushed the problem out of my mind.
Well yes obviously this sort of romance needs money, and if you just happen to be courting Paris Hilton, then hey.
We were courting for over ten years
He spent his early life courting disapproval, mincing down the corridors in front of the religious brothers to avoid conforming.
In those populations, females assemble in courting areas called leks to attract the few males that are flying about.
It isn't the first time he has been found courting La Dame; take him to the powdery depths of the canyon at Roussillon, and he'll brush red and yellow ochre across his stubbled face. Jean-Marc
At this stage males still accept additional mates and are actively courting.
Behind our school there is a stream courting the fishermen.
They anticipated that an influx of griefers or other problematic behaviors could result from courting more newcomers.
There is no courting, no sweet talk or handholding.
Drinking and driving is simply courting disaster.
Already, we have had the spectacle of the "decontaminated" Conservative party courting the Latvian Fatherland and Freedom party, several of whose MPs marched on 16 March in Riga with veterans of the Latvian SS. The Guardian World News
There were several courting couples in the park.
Having spent a lifetime avidly courting publicity, Paul has suddenly become secretive.
Yet women were also commonly found in theatre audiences: matinées catered particularly to mothers and children, while evening performances at theatres attracted courting couples.
So what is the point of courting such unpopularity over tax credits for so little saving? Times, Sunday Times
It's courting disaster to go into the mountains without proper weatherproof clothing.
Vane to "cozen" the Scottish Presbyterian Commissioners in the phraseology of the Solemn League and Covenant; with Samuel Vassall, whose name shares with those of Hampden and Lord Say and Sele the renown of the refusal to pay ship-money, and of courting the suit which might ruin them or emancipate England; with John Venn, who, at the head of six thousand citizens, beset the House of Lords during the trial of Lord Strafford, and whom, with three other Londoners, King Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733
In his early years he was not averse to courting controversy and he played a major role in the Language Freedom Movement in the 1960s, which campaigned against compulsory Irish in schools.
He rewinds the tape to replay a passage about a girl he was courting at the time, and the ineffable sadness that creeps over his face is heartbreaking.
Along with the "Health's Angels," Pom Wonderful is also courting the fashion-forward. Archive 2009-02-01
He refused to return to Napoli and moved back to Spain and then Argentina for a largely anonymous spell, before courting controversy again in another World Cup USA 1994.
With 4500 seats, it represented the acme of movie-going, with double seats for courting couples, uniformed doormen and waitresses in two restaurants dressed as Dresden shepherdesses.
The narrative deals with events of boyhood, then courting, matchmaking, and marriage, and afterwards the unremitting harshness of life.
Firms that in flusher times might have rebuffed suitors now are courting them. Stark Choice for Lawyers— Firms Must Merge or Die
The park was filled with strolling tourists, courting couples and a few people lying on blankets enjoying the warmth of the late sun.
It seems quite likely for I recall from courting days that my own amorous advances met with much the same response.
Combining raciness and comfort, it could appeal to both courting couples and oldies with bad backs. Times, Sunday Times
Institutions are treading cautiously, even as they up the ante by courting hedge funds more assiduously.
While their classmates were courting concussion with head-banging, these young scamps would borrow equipment from electronic stores to ‘test them out’, use them to make music, then exchange them for different items.
The projector, therefore, without mentioning the offers that have been made to him by a foreign maritime power, and _without courting_ the suffrages of British merchants in support of this plan, has it in contemplation, (_provided no attention is paid to it in England_,) to lay this eligible scheme open to a foreign power. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
Charles is in love with Maria; Joseph is courting the same girl for her fortune, while at the same time dallying with Lady Teazle.
Couture fashion courting the cut-throat world of the seedy mafia and danger too.
He spent three months assiduously courting a newspaper editor.
Indeed, the social stimulation derived from the calling and courting of neighbors in the colony has been shown to hasten the development of eggs in crested penguins.
My feeling, swallowing sour grapes and all, is that he was probably courting controversy, and blog inches, in choosing a postmodern conceptual/performance artist.
No politician will come courting us until I can say that we have several hundred thousand members.
Great crested grebes are courting out on unfrozen lakes. Times, Sunday Times
They are also fussy in selecting life-long partners so, understandably, courting takes ages, as does the honeymoon before baby arrives.
The ground here was deeply cracked from a rainless month, a pair of courting brown butterflies climbed high into the sky.
I half-expected him to give each manatee a friendly slap across the back, he reminded me so much of a local politician courting his constituents.
But ingratiation is not just about courting popularity.
Even that campaign, which has benefited most from the anti-war position, has made no special attempt at courting the anti-globalization coalition.
Despite their notorious long-distance calls, courting peafowl do not vocalize in that situation.
Her two big issues that should be easy wins for the GOP in courting women is the unfair tax structure (one that Linda Hirshman also touts outside the election arena) and flex-time at work. Wooing women with hope instead of fear
By restructuring the business and then courting a buyer, he has grown it tenfold. Times, Sunday Times
Her friend Mike Hudack, a developer and administrator for the National Hockey League and "one of the smartest people" she had ever met, was courting her to join the team as chief operating officer, a position that would require her to shmooze with investors and make distribution and advertising deals with major media companies. The Blonde Ambition of Blip.tv
This process was backed up by some assiduous courting of those ‘inferior’ partners even before they formally acceded.
But Thorn had come courting, playing a delicate game, and he had to remind himself to downshift his rage, keep Janey's face out of his head. OFF THE CHART
The financial group is also courting foreign strategic investment from an assortment of overseas institutions.
The strafing of a bus by NATO troops that killed four passengers Monday prompted protests and harsh words from Afghans whom the U.S. is courting for help in defeating the Taliban. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: April 13, 2010
It's a touchier topic from the male perspective," weighs in Shawn Graham, author of Courting Your Career: Match Yourself with the Perfect Job. Flirting Your Way To The Corner Office
After his father's death, their son Stephen, a member of our editorial board, found an old Latin missal that his father had apparently given his mother while they were courting.
But he succeeds notably in sustaining enthusiasm across 751 pages, taking a wise and soulful man who was inept at courting popular opinion and lionizing him.
The courting process had not begun well. Times, Sunday Times
Well, these bags have been courting attention this past fortnight or so.
Paul and Rachel Chandler have now been held by Somali pirates since October, and there seems to be no aid forthcoming from the British government – is this really the reaction we should be getting from a political party supposedly courting votes for a forthcoming election? Is It Time For Gordon Brown To Grow A Pair? « The Graveyard
He is due to retire at the end of this year, and all parties bar Labour are courting him.
When my grandfather was courting my grandmother, he was the town drayman, and was often working with the ferryman in transporting cargo to town businesses, as well as mail items to the postmaster for delivery... Archive 2005-12-01
Some new plan of pleasure, and sociability is constantly courting our adoption. The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact
But, by courting them with such policies, they may alienate mainstream voters.
Great men are most part thus affected all, as a horse they neigh, saith [6082] Jeremiah, after their neighbours 'wives, — ut visa pullus adhinnit equa: and if they be in company with other women, though in their own wives' presence, they must be courting and dallying with them. Anatomy of Melancholy
(Jane Watkinson) Whilst the Liberal Democrats cannot rule out a pact with Labour if a hung parliament occurred, it is important to make sure that at the moment we distance ourself from the courting that is currently taking place by both Labour and the Tories. Oh no, not the cut vs investment line again Brown! « My Political Ramblings…
I was attractive, at least that is what the suitors would say when they came with the intentions of courting me.
Having got their break, it wasn't long before the band was courting the attention of the Radio 1 DJ, who quickly got them in for a live session.
From Sullivan & Co.'s perspective, Bush's public courting of the red state Babbits and the fundamentalist boobocracy suggests a want of taste. Let's take a closer look at Ron Paul.
He spent three months assiduously courting a newspaper editor.
So what is the point of courting such unpopularity over tax credits for so little saving? Times, Sunday Times
If he thinks he can remain in power by force he is courting disaster.
That said, his maverick tendencies are becoming almost a trademark of the man, and I'd wager a punt or two that he'll be courting controversy again before we next go to the polls.
Both Democratic and Republican parties are courting former supporters of Ross Perot.
I even bought a house in decaying Yorkville as a wedding present for the girl I was courting, that is, was courting over thirty years ago. What Is Wrong with Loving Canada?
They are openly courting the favours of imperialism.

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