OBLIGING in a Sentence

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266 example sentences for OBLIGING, such as:
1. You are under no obligation to buy anything.
2. We have a moral obligation to protect the environment.
3. I have an ethical and a moral obligation to my client.
4. Sir,' said Mr. Micawber, 'you are exceedingly obliging.
5. A lawyer owes an obligation of confidence to the client.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of OBLIGING
obliging
 a.  showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But I wanted to leave things in order and not just trust that obliging and indifferent sea to sweep my refuse away.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
2  Biddy, who was the most obliging of girls, immediately said she would, and indeed began to carry out her promise within five minutes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
3  He was so obliging as to suggest my father for your tutor, and he called on my father to propose it.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXII
4  Your conduct has always been of the most delicate and obliging description.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
5  Sir,' said Mr. Micawber, 'you are exceedingly obliging.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES
6  'You are very obliging, my dear Copperfield,' said Mr. Micawber; and hummed a tune.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
7  Darya Alexandrovna liked her neatness, her deferential and obliging manners, but she felt ill at ease with her.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 19
8  This obliging offer was gladly accepted, and Margaret retired to the parlor, which she hastily put in order by whisking the litter under the sofa and shutting the blinds to save the trouble of dusting.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
9  When he looked about him for another and a less intractable damsel to immortalize in melody, memory produced one with the most obliging readiness.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
10  As she grew up, a sound English education corrected in a great measure her French defects; and when she left school, I found in her a pleasing and obliging companion: docile, good-tempered, and well-principled.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
11  By nature inoffensive, friendly, and obliging, his presentation at St. James's had made him courteous.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
12  When the card-tables were placed, he had the opportunity of obliging her in turn, by sitting down to whist.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
13  The house, furniture, neighbourhood, and roads, were all to her taste, and Lady Catherine's behaviour was most friendly and obliging.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
14  An obliging thrush hopped across the lawn; a coil of pinkish rubber twisted in its beak.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
15  She was polite, obliging, cheerful, hopeful; but, the more polite, the more obliging, the more cheerful, the more hopeful, the more exemplary altogether, she; the forlorner Sacrifice and Victim, he.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  The debonair youth was liked by all who met him, because of his cheerful and obliging manner.
2  You are under no obligation to buy anything.
3  Employers have an obligation to treat all employees equally.
4  I don't want people coming to see me out of a sense of obligation.
5  Naturally, we hope every citizen will vote, a simple obligation of democracy with results that profoundly affect our lives.
6  A lawyer owes an obligation of confidence to the client.
7  I have an ethical and a moral obligation to my client.
8  We attended the party more out of a sense of obligation than anything else.
9  We have a moral obligation to protect the environment.
10  Last time we checked, the press had an obligation to examine the claims made in campaign ads.
11  South Carolina claimed the power to exempt its citizens from the obligation to obey federal law.
12  Parents are under a legal obligation to educate their children.
13  They felt under no obligation to maintain their employees.
14  It is the obligation of citizens to perform military service.
15  It's her moral obligation to tell the police what she knows.