How to Use obliging in a Sentence

obliging

adjective

• An obliging passerby helped her with her packages.
• With luck, at least one of them will be as obliging as Blanche.
  — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2023
• Rate setters were far more obliging just over a year ago, before the first rate increase in nearly a decade.
  — Steven Russolillo, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2016
• Gilles, meanwhile, settles into the role of the obliging patriarch who’s hot or warm as needed.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
• Langford will keep obliging and tickets will keep selling.
  — Dakota Crawford, Indianapolis Star, 5 June 2018
• With the obliging rhythm section of Fleetwood and now ex-husband John, McVie could depend on a granitic foundation for her reveries.
  — Alfred Soto, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2022
• Any obliging picnic table along the way will offer the same incredible view.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Aug. 2017
• The roads are dry, dusted with a milky layer of salt, and the all-wheel-drive R75 proves obliging, more than once bringing itself back into line for me as hairpin follows hairpin.
  — Robin Swithinbank, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2023
• New York City, after all, can be a most obliging co-star to its population of unwitting actors, who are always putting on a show.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 19 June 2018
• Because television, in its obliging way, is enabling us to work through some of our difficulties with regard to stuff.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2014
• Down the road is the Turnagain Arm Pit, which offers an obliging deck for summer-time sipping and some pretty solid barbecue.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2018
• Modi has used these levers to turn some of the biggest names in India’s news industry from barking watchdogs into obliging poodles.
  — Debasish Roy Chowdhury, Time, 3 May 2021
• But history is rarely so obliging about the timing and particulars of its dramatic turns.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
• That flip, from obliging smart house to nightmarish funhouse, is not so far off from many of the current problems that plague contemporary smart home technology.
  — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 5 May 2023
• Throughout his career, Mr. Robinson was always obliging when asked for an autograph and was even portrayed in a painting by Norman Rockwell, signing a baseball for a young fan.
  — Gary Gately, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
• At the last minute, a third-party guarantor entered the picture, obliging Christie’s to substantially increase pre-sale estimates.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2023
• Meanwhile, Apple's iTunes service remains a godawful mess and the company's obliging customers to buy external accessories (in the form of ear buds and dongles) takes some of the delight out of an iPhone purchase.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2017
• No Labels wants to be taken seriously—and Third Way is definitely obliging.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• He’s been polite, thoughtful, obliging, even loquacious.
  — Dallas News, 13 Feb. 2023
• The government would have fallen had the censure motion been upheld, obliging Macron either to name a new government or dissolve the National Assembly, or lower house, and call elections.
  — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
• For example, in August last year, a historic drought led to exceptionally low water levels in the Panama Canal, obliging ships to carry less cargo or use lengthy alternative routes.
  — Osvaldo Di Campli, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Russia adopted counter-terrorism legislation in 2016 obliging communications companies to store call logs and data for months, and to store it in local servers instead of abroad.
  — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2018
• On top of this, China has already sought to gradually make the multilateral system more obliging of its national interests and values.
  — Kevin Rudd, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2021
• The queen always seemed preternaturally suited for this quiet, obliging role, replete with towering soft power but little hard power.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2022
• Labor unions argue there are other options to re-balance the system, including encouraging or obliging French companies to keep on older workers, or reducing Macron’s tax cuts to fund the pension system.
  — Ania Nussbaum, Bloomberg.com, 10 Jan. 2023
• These are surely disorienting times for Donald Trump, who has endured endless controversy over his steadfast commitment to more obliging relations with Vladimir Putin.
  — Isobel Thompson, The Hive, 20 June 2017
• The provision was rescinded in 2005, but by then Hampton County had become a mecca for plaintiffs, with obliging juries frequently awarding multimillion-dollar verdicts in suits brought by pmped.
  — James Lasdun, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• Years of obliging service to Trump at his weakest moments—voicing steadfast support for him during his two impeachments, offering legal arguments that bolstered his stubborn denial of his 2020 defeat—also paid off for Johnson.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2024
• These are particularly specious claims, especially given that Trump’s recklessness (or toughness, depending on your perspective) was never really applied to Russia or Putin, to whom Trump tended to be pliant and obliging.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024