How to Use obliging in a Sentence

obliging

adjective

• An obliging passerby helped her with her packages.
• With luck, at least one of them will be as obliging as Blanche.
  — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2023
• Janet tends to be obliging to a fault, even when men give her reason to distrust them.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 June 2024
• Rate setters were far more obliging just over a year ago, before the first rate increase in nearly a decade.
  — Steven Russolillo, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2016
• Gilles, meanwhile, settles into the role of the obliging patriarch who’s hot or warm as needed.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
• Before taking a seat, many guests flock to the patio for photos, with staff kindly obliging and offering to take a snap or two.
  — Colin Wrenn, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2025
• This is a consequence of complaints about the subservient and obliging female voices of Sky and, earlier, of Siri and Alexa.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
• Langford will keep obliging and tickets will keep selling.
  — Dakota Crawford, Indianapolis Star, 5 June 2018
• But if Graeber couldn’t maintain an occupation of the present, perhaps the past would make a more obliging subject.
  — Walter Scheidel, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
• With the obliging rhythm section of Fleetwood and now ex-husband John, McVie could depend on a granitic foundation for her reveries.
  — Alfred Soto, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2022
• Yiannopoulos followed with screenshots of group texts with him, the dentist and West, with the latter requesting nitrous and the dentist obliging.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025
• His fans gave him an obliging laugh; a father and son sitting beside me snickered loudly enough to be captured on camera.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
• Any obliging picnic table along the way will offer the same incredible view.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Aug. 2017
• The roads are dry, dusted with a milky layer of salt, and the all-wheel-drive R75 proves obliging, more than once bringing itself back into line for me as hairpin follows hairpin.
  — Robin Swithinbank, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2023
• New York City, after all, can be a most obliging co-star to its population of unwitting actors, who are always putting on a show.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 19 June 2018
• Because television, in its obliging way, is enabling us to work through some of our difficulties with regard to stuff.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2014
• Down the road is the Turnagain Arm Pit, which offers an obliging deck for summer-time sipping and some pretty solid barbecue.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2018
• Modi has used these levers to turn some of the biggest names in India’s news industry from barking watchdogs into obliging poodles.
  — Debasish Roy Chowdhury, Time, 3 May 2021
• But history is rarely so obliging about the timing and particulars of its dramatic turns.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
• That flip, from obliging smart house to nightmarish funhouse, is not so far off from many of the current problems that plague contemporary smart home technology.
  — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 5 May 2023
• One obliging couple captured a video, which Ortega posted to TikTok.
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
• Logan, as Wolverine is also known, turns out to be a surprisingly obliging guest, politely observant of his host’s house rules.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 26 July 2024
• Throughout his career, Mr. Robinson was always obliging when asked for an autograph and was even portrayed in a painting by Norman Rockwell, signing a baseball for a young fan.
  — Gary Gately, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
• The law features several procedural requirements, such as obliging the team to provide six months’ notice to the government.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• At the last minute, a third-party guarantor entered the picture, obliging Christie’s to substantially increase pre-sale estimates.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2023
• The response to the investigation was swift and largely obliging.
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• Watson, who’s been transparent about his approach to a contract year, is happily obliging.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2026
• Texas coach Sean Miller wanted better defense, and the Horns are obliging.
  — Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 8 Dec. 2025
• To such a request, the world is obliging.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
• Mister is by nature a friendly doggie who is always sweet and obliging when strangers want to pet him.
  — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Aug. 2025