Sentence examples for courting someone from inspiring English sources

His father is courting someone, too; Will and his sister are deeply rude to her when his father brings her home.

When Ms. Paster learned of her friend's interest in the woman next door, she counseled him against courting someone living at such close quarters.

"When you consider that you put your life experience into courting someone to give you something, and your secretary gets her first name wrong in the next letter, and that ruins the relationship — this actually happened!" One of the precipitating factors in Armstrong's downfall at the Whitney was that a trustee accused him of anti-Semitism.

"By that time," Mitchell speculates, "Jez would have to be using sexual favours to court someone rich and 20 years older who'll buy him a guitar.

This is a tricky situation to be in when you are trying to court someone's attention, and all too common in the postdoc job market.

"We need someone who is quick and fast on the court, someone who can win us a championship," said Angie Villegas, 21, of Flatbush.

Cindy bragged about taking a picture with Anderson Cooper, who came to visit for an episode of "60 Minutes". She hoped that the president, the courts, someone, would grant leniency for Beristain.

In court someone always can move to liquidate the whole mess, leaving unsecured creditors with a pittance.

"It's having someone else in your court, someone who can check in and make sure your questions are being answered," says Dr. Rebecca Sudore, a geriatrician and palliative care physician at UC San Francisco.

"Despite that," he told the court, "someone at Number 10 {Downing Street, the home and HQ of the British Prime Minister] saw fit to counter what the Foreign Office wished to do".

If Obama names someone fairly moderate to the court (someone Republicans have previously voted to confirm, in other words), Republicans might decide that confirming him or her would be better than giving President Bernie Sanders or President Hillary Clinton the chance to put Obama himself on the Supreme Court.