How To Use Wooing In A Sentence
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After wooing the Eastleigh audience with another blockbusting performance, the veteran entertainer vowed to fans that he would be back again next year.
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Yes, -- and, to confirm my suspicions, here rattle in the drums and pipe in the fifes, wooing us to get up, _get up_, with music too peremptory to be harmonious.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861
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While the major parties, and there are three, the Bharatiya janta party, the congress and the Janata dal - s are wooing thevoters with promise of sev eral goodies, the Bahujan samaj party and the samajwadi party, whose roots are in uttar pradesh are doint something else.
Coalition shades
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China is wooing Russia
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Gavin seems happier than I've ever seen him in Bachelor world, where he lives the life of supermodel Sultan, wooing compliant, star-stuck ladies in deserted theme parks, providing them with burlesque ie stripping classes, going on excursions to clifftop picnics where shrieking fillies are made to hurtle across the cliffs by Tarzan slide, clinging round his powerful torso.
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Not only that, but Christian wasn't exactly a romantic, nor did he have any experience of wooing a woman.
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It has a superior, snotty tone that reminds one of the problems some candidates have had in wooing the average American voter.
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Investment banks are busy wooing the republic's government to try to win deals.
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The Conservative leader tells the paper that while he was "outflanked" by Clegg in the TV debate, voters will dismiss the Lib Dems as a serious contender once they learn more about the party's policies. says Labour is now "wooing" Clegg "in earnest" amid mouting speculation there will be a hung parlaiment.
The Guardian World News
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Isn't it terrific to see someone from the area doing so well and obviously wooing the ladies along the way!
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Meanwhile housebuilder Cala Homes is wooing first-timers by paying the 5 percent deposit, stamp duty and ￡500 towards the legal costs.
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During the wooing scene, Petruchio assesses Kate as though she were a piece of horseflesh, checking her ‘gait’ for imperfections.
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To pay for civic amenities, city hall is wooing clean, high-tech firms.
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Hotels in the city are busy wooing gourmets with food.
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Banks too are not to be left behind in wooing the hesitant customer.
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The newsletter's attacks on individuals seem an eccentric way of wooing voters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Morris says he has always loved and been interested in women, but just wishes he had had a copy of this book when he was a young man wooing the women of Swindon.
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For a brief period, Arthur had been willing to allot $5 of his earnings per month to pleasure activities in the hope of wooing a lady.
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Its wooing of such a company, in the eyes of many, shredded public confidence in the agency.
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But can a misshapen, double-dealing, prince-murdering, widow-wooing king ever be more than a mere shadow of evil - compared to an aspiring musical theatre lead?
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Isella was found to be a mother; and then the storm burst upon her and drabbled her in the dust as fearlessly as the summer-wind sweeps down and besmirches the lily it has all summer been wooing and flattering.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator
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This demographic is seen as uninterested in politics and so parties aren't interested in wooing them.
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Wherever I turned my eyes, or lent my ears, it seemed to me that the Gy was the wooing party, and the An the coy and reluctant one.
The Coming Race
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Along with many exotic artifacts, Feng has imported the codes and language of courtly love, with its cult of indirection, of secrecy, and of long, slow, wooing.
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As Leporello tells Elvira in his aria "Madamina, il catalogo e questo," Giovanni is a true democrat, wooing and seducing women of all classes, shapes and sizes.
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No longer would courtly ladies be gently serenaded by love-struck balladeers - The Taming Of The Shrew threw out any notion of wooing and replaced it with a more martial one.
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Colleges have been aggressively wooing the top African-American and Hispanic students.
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The Bank is wooing retail investors; it has just published a booklet on the virtues of gilts.
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Shaw's neglected one-act comedy, `A Village Wooing'
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There can be no doubt from the tone set by Brian on Thursday at the bank's O'Connell Street branch that the group has gone for wooing customers with messianic zeal.
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When it comes time to argue in the Israeli forum, there is nothing in that brief that would “judicially estop” him from investing “some of his charm and charisma in wooing the Israeli public.”
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Tell him he only gets another chance if he is prepared to work at wooing you all over again and rebuilding your trust.
The Sun
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Yes, -- and, to confirm my suspicions, here rattle in the drums and pipe in the fifes, wooing us to get up, _get up_, with music too peremptory to be harmonious.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861
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He has been wooing audiences with his musical ability ever since his first performance at the age of five.
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When the robot stood in the bower, the male exercised a cautious, rather subdued display - wooing carefully to avoid flustering the prospective mate.
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Having befriended the monstrous Lelio, she agrees to rescue him from the marital clutches of a middle-aged countess by wooing the lady herself.
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Never fear, secluded mateless types: through some meticulous research I have developed some foolproof methods of wooing.
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Everyone's stomach is built for passionate wooing-even yours, you cold-blooded young vestal.
THE THORN BIRDS
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On Ashoka Road for instance, Rama along with her grandson Kunwar Pal, can be seen wooing customers from under a tree.
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The newsletter's attacks on individuals seem an eccentric way of wooing voters.
Times, Sunday Times
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The modulation from aggrieved femininity to fawning submissiveness in her wooing is masterfully handled.
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During the last weeks of Martin's wooing, she had withdrawn herself a little from the business of the farm into a kind of overlordship, from which she was far more free to detach herself than from personal service.
Joanna Godden
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To pay for civic amenities, city hall is wooing clean, high-tech firms.
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The changeful, impetuous wooing of youth lies far behind him, but his homage, which the Ephebi of today would perhaps term antiquated, has always seemed to me as if a mountain were bending before a star.
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It will become a pedestrian mall during the games, wooing visitors with the now-ubiquitous coffee franchises and sushi bars.
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The move is apparently aimed at wooing the support of residents in the region prior to next April's general elections.
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The classic love story of Cyrano's wooing of Roxanne is filled with comedy and intellectual swordplay.
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The newsletter's attacks on individuals seem an eccentric way of wooing voters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here the sensuous wooing of the traditional lover is replaced by a display of coy and squeamish chastity.
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The terms illustrate YouTube's willingness to bend in wooing media companies.
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He had an infectious way of making a charlatan believable, a Lothario's wooing credible, a swindler's eventual revelation of a heart behind his billfold totally convincing.
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Is it true that impecunious Lord Heverton is wooing a wealthy widow from Brighton with nary a title to her name?
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
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He becomes two men, a nice guy by day and a ruthless killer by night, living in both high society and the gutter while wooing two women.
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The research shows that the best mimics with the broadest repertoire were most successful at wooing the females.
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The title "singer-songwriter" brings to mind a multitude of horrors: James Blunt cooing about beauty, James Morrison crooning about "something", Jack Johnson wooing ladies with banana pancakes.
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This is a play about transformations: a boy into a man, a man into a king, enmity to possible love (the wooing scene between the bluff Henry and the enchanting French princess is a delight).
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Aren't Sicilian scoundrels wooing comely American lasses behind every corner?
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I remember, when I was in love I broke my sword upon a stone, and bid him take that for coming a-night to Jane Smile; and I remember the kissing of her batler, and the cows dugs that her pretty chopped hands had milked; and I remember the wooing of a peascod instead of her, from whom I took two cods, and giving her them again, said with weeping tears, Wear these for my sake.
Act II. Scene IV. As You Like It
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The President will not waste time wooing the Left.
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Efforts at wooing an electorate of a changed demographic are clear and explicit.
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The President will not waste time wooing the Left.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was about Hazlitt's wooing of Rachel the pathos which might distinguish the love affair of a Baptist angel and the hamadryad daughter of a Babayaga.
Erik Dorn
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But a burgher named Sachs, arguing that singers should instead be wooing the "untutored" hearts of the masses, proposes letting the winner be chosen instead by a young woman named Eva along with the rest of the public.
Hullabaloo
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On television his glowering and beard-stroking would become monotonous, and wooing the Jewish vote would present a definite obstacle.
Why Anthony Eden Never Wore a Coonskin Cap: James Wolcott
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With young families to support, the founders concentrated on wooing those deep-pocketed companies.
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Tony seems harmless enough, until his overeager wooing of Theresa flares into full-scale stalking.
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What had happened in the kitchen was a calculated wooing, tease, flirtation, safely outrageous.
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After having spent an hour or so with WORDSWORTH'S sonnets I found my head so full of his sonorous adjuratory music that when in the middle of the night I woke as usual -- from three to four is the worst time -- my wooing of reluctant sleep took on a new fashion, and instead of repeating verses I made them.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 18, 1917
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Mozart might not have been the spendthrift hellion portrayed in the 1984 film Amadeus, but he could play the piano blindfolded, loved wooing women and wrote bawdy letters.
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This election has been marked so far by the candidates' wooing of each other's traditional political bases.
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He nearly succeeds in spoiling the impending marriage of Claudio and Hero by leading Claudio to believe, on the occasion of a masqued ball (2.1), that Don Pedro is wooing the lady for himself and not for Claudio; and then, undaunted by his final lack of success in this gambit, Don John proceeds to unfix the marriage once again by devising a tale about Hero's supposed sexual profligacy.
Shakespeare
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Come campaign season, however, the Baltimore politicians fall over each other wooing voters in populous Montgomery and Prince George's counties and other Washington suburbs.
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There have been reports of dozens of roses, love letters and chocolates wooing the female of the species.
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Permit me to warn you, brother mine, that this wooing business is definitely plaguesome.
A Lady of Expectations
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The changeful, impetuous wooing of youth lies far behind him, but his homage, which the Ephebi of today would perhaps term antiquated, has always seemed to me as if a mountain were bending before
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
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Eventually he wearied of wooing fame and fortune.
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If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.
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The doves are cooing and wooing and calling for love.
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Mr. Zapatero, who runs a minority government, got the package through with the sole votes of his Socialist party and abstention from a Basque nationalist party that he is wooing furiously for support on his next challenge, which is much bigger: passing a budget for 2011.
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Colleges have been aggressively wooing the top African-American and Hispanic students.
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Wooing under the Arctic Circle was a methodical bargaining, and there was little room for sentiment.
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