Sentence examples for suitor by from inspiring English sources

5 1 THE RELUCTANT SUITOR, by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss.

This time, the worried father is played by Mr. Mac, and the suitor by Mr. Kutcher.

She called her suitor by his real name, Wilhelm de Kostrowitzky, or "Kostro".

Cordelia disposes of an inconvenient suitor by leaving him with her mother for tea while she pretends to be out.

In an early chapter of "The Portrait of a Lady," Isabel Archer fends off Caspar Goodwood, her persistent American suitor, by declaring an intention to remain unmarried.

The New Yorker, August 9, 1947 P. 24 Cordelia disposes of an inconvenient suitor by leaving him with her mother for tea while she pretends to be out.

Poison pills are intended to deter unwanted suitors by making hostile bids prohibitively expensive.

Scornful of men, she fended off suitors by swearing she would marry only a husband willing to take her far away to Tennessee.

Charles Darwin recognized selection among various male suitors by females as instrumental in the evolution of sexual species, including birds and insects.

For the first date with the male-conquering Rachel, who as the champion filly of 2009 embarrassed many of her potential suitors by winning the Preakness, the Haskell and the Woodward, there was hardly a contest.

So Mead is moving to establish barriers against unwanted suitors by giving management wide discretion to issue preferred shares and limiting the ability of investors to call special meetings.