oblige

How To Use oblige In A Sentence

• He did not seem overcome with pleasure at the idea of Philippa's visit, and she felt a little disappointed, but she had been interested in his talk; and as she went back to the house with Miss Mervyn, her mind was so full of it, that she felt obliged to tell her all about Tuvvy and Dennis, and her own plans for Becky's benefit. Black, White and Gray A Story of Three Homes
• Naturally, her husband was very pleased and only too happy to oblige with the ‘work.’
• An epitaph is on a gravestone, and while I am sure they would be happy to oblige, that wasn’t what they were actually throwing, I don’t think …. Think Progress » GOP Rep. Nunes Excuses Racist, Homophobic Tea Partier Slurs As A Response To ‘Totalitarian Tactics’
• The law obliges officials to review deals with firms found responsible for corruption. Times, Sunday Times
• In the second week of August the government was obliged to answer accusations of negligence and indifference.
• The key to their popularity was government subsidy and regulation that obliged motorists and oil companies to use biofuels. Times, Sunday Times
• Should we accept that corporate bosses do bad things not because of the badness of their hearts but because they are obliged to?
• In the beginning of the ninth century St. Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople, states that all are obliged to observe xerophagy during those seasons The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
• I have been told they should have made an appointment before visiting and I am not obliged to tell them anything.
• Hungary, yet was my attorney obliged to solicit the instrument called ritter-diploma, for which, under pain of execution, I must pay two thousand florins. The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2