obliging

How To Use obliging In A Sentence

• A typical nest thus pointed out by an over-obliging bird was saddled neatly on a horizontal limb of a balm tree at the height of about 30 feet from the ground and the ever-present lake.
• From the first moment he interested me, especially for his obligingness and for his knowledge of local conditions.
• But everyone agrees that the banks are still being disobliging. Times, Sunday Times
• That was a mood encouraged by the obliging staff. Times, Sunday Times
• She takes hold of my hand, and having roll'd up her own petticoats, forced it half strivingly towards those parts, where, now grown more knowing, I miss'd the main object of my wishes; and finding not even the shadow of what I wanted, where every thing was so flat, or so hollow, in the vexation I was in at it, I should have withdrawn my hand but for fear of disobliging her. Fanny Hill, Part II (first letter)
• An uncompromising and rigid republican, he was called by Clarendon ‘an absurd bold man’, and by Ludlow, who knew him well, ‘a man of a disobliging carriage, sour and morose of temper’.
• A female constable obligingly stepped out whenever the men wanted access Assiya.
• They boost their own expenses and expand their empires and then, when they discover that they cannot deliver services, they turn to the obliging taxpayer.
• And this open-handed warmth equally encompasses the friendly, obliging ship's crew.
• Not only that: he is an unobliging historian, being thin on context and causes.