Sentence examples for like a suitor from inspiring English sources

"I spent a year trying to get through to Cindy," Mr. French said, sounding like a suitor.

Afterwards it strikes me what that movie is, and I reel out of the cinema like a suitor at the end of a misbegotten date.

Like a suitor spurned, in 2007 the US also lodged a complaint with the World Trade Organisation over China's protectionist film distribution practices.

For several minutes he passed like a suitor back and forth in front of a young woman on a bench who never looked up from the screen on her phone.

The three of us posed by Lake Burley Griffin, where he knelt like a suitor and clasped one of us in each arm, earnest hope straining his thin face while I covered my mouth and giggled.

But now, like a suitor seeking out a lover he spurned, Mr. Bush is desperately pursuing Mr. Fox for Mexico's crucial vote on the United Nations Security Council in favor of a resolution implicitly authorizing an American-led attack on Iraq.

But still she remained elusive, bestowing her gifts only occasionally and with the disdain that a suitor like me deserved.

During his concert at the Barclays Center on Thursday night, Leonard Cohen spent a lot of time in an unusual pose for a rock star: on his knees, like a supplicant or a suitor.

Early on, Adèle tells a suitor that she likes languages — the word is langue.

In discussing the possibility of receiving a grade on his products, Mr. Balint sounded a bit like a spurned suitor.

I dialled it several times but, like a nervous suitor, quickly hung up before the line connected.