Supplicants is an English word. Below you'll find 8 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Supplicants meaning
plural of supplicant
Using Supplicants
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of supplicant
Context around Supplicants
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Supplicants
- In this selection, "supplicants" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, contemporary, ourselves, themselves, sought, came and begging stand out and add context to how "supplicants" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and its supplicants in the and athena and supplicants were untouchable. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "supplicants" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with supplicants
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The supplicants came bearing tithes. (5 words)
He's got three people at the top, and they are supplicants," said Palmeri. (14 words)
To leave without disastrous economic consequences (such as a collapse in inward investment), we find ourselves supplicants, begging for a good deal. (22 words)
Yet, even in Oregon, where a law is on the books that forbid the construction of new nuclear power plants until a viable solution is found to store nuclear waste, the industry and its supplicants in the media and government are trying to overturn the law. (46 words)
It is only one project in the field of “prayer studies”; others have sought to evaluate “distant intercessory healing” and even intercessory prayer, in which contemporary supplicants sought to affect the recovery of patients in the past. (37 words)
Ajax's actions were a sacrilege because Cassandra was a supplicant of Athena and supplicants were untouchable in the sanctuary of a god, under the protection of that god. (29 words)
Example sentences (8)
He's got three people at the top, and they are supplicants," said Palmeri.
Yet, even in Oregon, where a law is on the books that forbid the construction of new nuclear power plants until a viable solution is found to store nuclear waste, the industry and its supplicants in the media and government are trying to overturn the law.
It is only one project in the field of “prayer studies”; others have sought to evaluate “distant intercessory healing” and even intercessory prayer, in which contemporary supplicants sought to affect the recovery of patients in the past.
The supplicants came bearing tithes.
To leave without disastrous economic consequences (such as a collapse in inward investment), we find ourselves supplicants, begging for a good deal.
What the Airbus story reveals again is that our political classes – from Holyrood to Westminster to Cardiff Bay – have made themselves supplicants for foreign investment.
Ajax's actions were a sacrilege because Cassandra was a supplicant of Athena and supplicants were untouchable in the sanctuary of a god, under the protection of that god.
Japanese brought items to "offer" to Korea and received in exchange "gifts" of higher value, since Korea was a greater land receiving supplicants.