Sentence examples for obliging friends from inspiring English sources

It was hot, so I led a small group of obliging friends through an extended flight of gorgeous drinks.

And what was the scientific basis for the conclusion that monkeys, warm with envious spite, their most obliging friends would bite?

It requires only the signatures of a couple of obliging friends, the filing of some papers at the office of the County Clerk, and the expenditures of five or six dollars fee. The local Department of Public Welfare interests itself with charitable corporations, but religious enterprises are by special provision exceptions to this rule.

SOMETIMES the way the United States behaves in Latin America seems calculated to oblige its friends to seek other allies.

They reconciled a decade later, and Mr. Davis obliged his friend by publishing his all-too-candid autobiography only after Senator Franken was elected.

Growing crops with chemicals was all he knew — until the fall of 2005, when he went to a meeting "to oblige a friend" and heard Umendra Dutt, the founder of KVM, speak about organic farming.

There was nothing racial about the relish, rudeness, and smirking delight with which the cop collared him, tossed him into the drunk tank, threatened me with arrest (for "resisting arrest"), and obliged my friend's faculty adviser to come down to Central Square in the middle of the night to bail him out — unless you consider anti-non-Irishness to be racism.

On his veranda overlooking the Cumberland River, Hartford, no longer able to play an instrument himself, called out the names of tunes he wanted to hear, and his friends obliged, serenading him for hours.

Now, anxious parents with no strings to pull are obliged to enlist friends and family in a frenzy of dialing on the morning after Labor Day, as they desperately try to secure one of the limited places on the schools' applicant lists.

Illness and the kindness of Dutch friends obliged him to stay some months longer in Holland.

No wonder Nathan's friends are obliged to carry her offstage: fiancee removal.