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.
  • The posting goes on to solicit funds to pay for the legal action.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The hearing in Detroit kicked off the group's statewide tour to solicit input on the draft maps.
    — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Don’t forget to solicit new points of view as well — customers are, of course, a great source.
    — Perttu Nihti, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • 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
  • The intent of the text is to solicit a reply, to trick the recipient into a chat.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
  • Though no one has come through yet, the group has solicited everyone from Quincy Jones to Discogs.
    — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Along the way, Couch said the city would solicit input from residents.
    — Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The world is full of information—some solicited and some not.
    — Gregory Ostrowski, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • She was told that the police do not call residents to solicit funds.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Few actors solicit more warmth than Bob Odenkirk these days.
    — Chicago Tribune, oregonlive, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Jones was charged with soliciting a minor to pose for nude photos in 2003.
    — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The policy does not require the board to solicit feedback from the public.
    — John Gordon and Clare Diegel, Star Tribune, 16 Sep. 2020
  • And, yet, laughter—or, at least, comics’ onstage attempts to solicit it—always tries to find a way.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • The officials wanted to break up the contract into three parts to solicit new bids, the people said.
    — Paul Mozur, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Teams were set up in each state to solicit entries and narrow them down to five finalists, says Belle.
    — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Along the way, Chan has made a habit of bringing focaccia to work to solicit feedback from his co-workers.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2021
  • Amy Kurtz, the fund’s president, said those projects solicit donations to the fund and direct how the money is spent.
    — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2022
  • The review process could last over a year as the FCC solicits public comment and considers changes.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 28 Apr. 2025
  • 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 city solicited ideas from the public for the unused 100-year-old tunnel underneath Central Parkway.
    — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 4 July 2025
  • After first putting forward a proposal for restructuring Haskell in December, Moran and his bill co-sponsors took six months to solicit feedback from university stakeholders, including various tribal groups and the Lawrence community.
    — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2025

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