How to Use solicit in a Sentence

solicit

verb

• The center is soliciting donations to help victims of the earthquake.
• The company is soliciting bids from various firms.
• The newspaper's editors want to solicit opinions from readers.
• The prostitutes were arrested for soliciting customers.
• Special interest groups are soliciting Congress for funds.
• The organization is soliciting for donations.
• The organization is soliciting new memberships.
• Along the way, Couch said the city would solicit input from residents.
  — Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2022
• Most state agencies must solicit bids to ensure the best value for taxpayers.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
• The company, Base, filed for an injunction that would block the men from using its name to solicit further investments.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 18 Aug. 2022
• Thus, a shopping center has been required to allow people to solicit signatures on a petition.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 2 Oct. 2022
• Little Rock officials have been hosting public meetings across the city to solicit input on how to deploy the upcoming bond proceeds for streets, drainage and parks.
  — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2022
• But Koenen, in 1989, had few art-world precedents to reference, and no internet to solicit broken clocks.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
• The locations are preliminary because the state still needs to solicit site hosts and work with utilities to determine their feasibility based on the power grid.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Sep. 2022
• The duo reached out to the Norwegian film production company Bacon to solicit a bevy of directors to create content based upon the songs.
  — Jason Pettigrew, SPIN, 17 Aug. 2022
• That provision is a win for Baker, who has long sought to eliminate the price cap, and whose administration plans to solicit bids for offshore wind development later this year.
  — Dharna Noor, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
• This prompts states to come up with their own spending plans, solicit and evaluate public comments, and ultimately submit those plans to HUD for approval.
  — Mike Smith, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2022
• The posting goes on to solicit funds to pay for the legal action.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
• That means the city doesn’t solicit bids from other firms for the construction portion of the project.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Oct. 2022
• The flier was soliciting people to join a game-night group.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
• Though no one has come through yet, the group has solicited everyone from Quincy Jones to Discogs.
  — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2024
• ProPublica and the Post-Gazette obtained copies of the results of four tests carried out in 2021 that were solicited by Philips.
  — Jonathan D. Salant, ProPublica, 6 Oct. 2023
• Toward the end of the first season of All There Is, Cooper solicited voicemails from viewers to share their own stories.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2023
• The board solicited proxies to keep the current board in place, and to prevent adjourning the meeting to another date in time.
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2023
• ProPublica and the Post-Gazette obtained copies of four tests carried out in 2021 that were solicited by Philips.
  — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2023
• Le, who has owned his building since March 2020, wants to solicit opinions from his neighbors.
  — Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton, The Denver Post, 21 May 2024
• The patrons hire an architect and solicit the best design.
  — Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
• Each month, Moore Aloha solicits essays through a prompt.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• But Logan, Hayes’s chief rival in the race, was miffed that Hayes had not mentioned the name of the candidate soliciting signatures.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2024
• What's next: If approved, DSM will solicit bids and transfer the property to a developer for rehab.
  — Jason Clayworth, Axios, 5 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024