How to Use suitor in a Sentence

suitor

noun
  • He was her most persistent suitor, and she eventually agreed to marry him.
  • An unwanted suitor is buying up the company's stock.
  • Then, at the end, the winning suitor meets their match face-to-face.
    Kate Knibbs, Wired, 21 July 2021
  • That's how coach Juwan Howard and the Wolverines emerged as a suitor.
    Mason Young, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2022
  • The idea of attempting to draw suitors in this heat is hellish.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2023
  • In her junior year, a suitor named Fredy who worked as a cook asked her to move in.
    Jason Deparle, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The large price tag for the app is one of many factors that could limit the number of suitors.
    Lauren Hirsch, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • After all, the point is to stick out in the pool of potential suitors, right?
    Alyssa Girdwain, Women's Health, 17 Mar. 2023
  • At the start of the finale, both women had a final suitor.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The large price tag for the app is one of many factors that could limit the number of suitors.
    Peter Baker, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Odysseus coming back to find his wife still weaving and the suitors all there.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The Hard Pass: A hard pass redirects a suitor’s love and turns it into hate.
    Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Fire up those dating apps, or get ready to approach a suitor in the wild.
    Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Johnson wears a long, blue dress while her suitor sports a top hat.
    Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 21 Apr. 2022
  • If the app went back on sale, Microsoft could be a suitor.
    Thomas Germain / Gizmodo, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The talks could still fall apart, and another suitor could emerge.
    Lauren Thomas, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Portland and Salt Lake City would be among the likely suitors.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Whether a suitor will come in and save NYCB is unclear.
    Byluisa Beltran, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2024
  • He, too, seems fated to fade into the ether like so many past suitors.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2024
  • Crypto has proven to be a fickle suitor for chip makers in the past.
    Jacky Wong, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Adams, 31, is still one of the best at his position in the league and is likely to have plenty of suitors.
    Ben Morse, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Kate isn't even in London to find herself a suitor, but rather to help Edwina make the best match.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Or is there a suitor elsewhere in the league that would trade assets for the goalie that manned the crease during the Cup Final run?
    Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 12 May 2021
  • Louisville native Matt Arnold was among the 25 suitors vying for Tran's love.
    Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 9 July 2024
  • But might a suitor convince her there's more for her in this life than settling?
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 15 May 2024
  • So what would suitors give their loves when asking them to spend the rest of their lives together?
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • In Episode 2, Jenn and 18 suitors were off to Melbourne, Australia, where there were two group dates and two one-on-one dates.
    Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 22 July 2024
  • An anonymous suitor sends optometrist Sara a gift for each night of Hanukkah.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Odysseus wanders the island and regains his strength for the inevitable battle against the many suitors trying to win his wife.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2024
  • His beloved wife Penelope (Binoche) is a prisoner in her own home, hounded by suitors vying to be king.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024

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