How to Use solicitude in a Sentence

solicitude

noun

• He expressed solicitude for my health.
• And yet these judges evince far more solicitude for former convicts’ right to bear arms than their right to vote.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 9 May 2017
• And then, my solicitude surprised no one, not me, not him, not our friends and family.
  — Carolita Johnson, Longreads, 21 June 2018
• Not to lord victory over others, but to show solicitude and modesty in triumph.
  — Greg Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• His solicitude aside, Vargas hunted those men to the exclusion of all else.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
• Frederick’s solicitude for Agatha puts him on a collision course with his dad.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
• Yet there are way too many endearing acts and instances of real solicitude to dismiss him as an irredeemable jerk.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• His solicitude has prompted me to write often about the oppressed, the overlooked and especially those who needed help.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 21 June 2019
• Nor has Texas shown much solicitude for the businesses that provide capital to help its economy grow.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• In some ways, his circumstances seem even less worthy of judicial solicitude than his predecessors’ were.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2019
• The court’s conservative majority is not known for its solicitude toward death-row prisoners, to say the least.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 Nov. 2020
• Avedon wanted not only to detect the pulse, with a physician’s intimate solicitude, but to amplify and announce it, like a town crier.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
• In this story of middle-age reckoning and teenage awakening, there are plenty of moments of selfishness dressed up as solicitude.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2022
• Progressive politicians are doing the opposite, blighting the lives of the law-abiding with their warped solicitude for the criminal few.
  — William P. Barr, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2022
• But this international wave of solicitude seems different in important ways, not least because of its context.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Mar. 2022
• Even the special solicitude accorded former presidents does not alter the outcome.
  — Charlie Savage, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2021
• Touched by their solicitude (turns out Gary only suffered a minor concussion), Rachel invites the duo to her eatery, and a friendship commences.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 7 Dec. 2022
• There’s a competitive passive aggression in their solicitude, and plenty of ego within their altruism.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2017
• That’s surely what accounts for the solicitude that the cryptocurrency industry has been receiving from Congress.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
• For Marius’ friend, police chief Silviu (Alex Conovaru), such solicitude is weak and unmanly.
  — Jay Weissberg, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026
• All of this tremendous deference to the religious sensitivities of the objectors is balanced against, well, no solicitude at all for the interests on the opposing side.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 19 Mar. 2017
• Wexner may also have enjoyed a certain amount of solicitude from Harvard associated with his relationship with Epstein.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• Currie handles that emotionally complex and unspeakably sad situation with such tender solicitude.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2017
• Likewise, the show’s depiction of a strain of officious bureaucracy that uses an ostentatious form of well-meaning solicitude to mask various forms of self-serving malice occasionally strikes home.
  — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2020
• Moreover, the president’s determination that an exercise of his own power was unconstitutional warrants the court’s solicitude.
  — Josh Blackman, National Review, 10 Jan. 2018
• That’s especially so in light of the solicitude the regents recently showed to their cadre of half-million-dollar campus chancellors, supposedly doing so poorly in relation to their public university peers.
  — Michael Hiltzikbusiness Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2022
• That may account for the thrust of many early corporate statements about the Hamas attack, which tended to express solicitude for Israeli employees and their families and reiterate commitment to the Israeli market.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• If America’s policy toward China for the first four decades since normalization in 1979 can be described as benevolent solicitude, this new policy is one of flinty reciprocity.
  — John Pomfret, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2017
• Hence the newfound hostility of conservative jurists to Chevron may be seen not as a break from the 1980s, but a continuation of solicitude by conservative jurists for Republican political authority.
  — WSJ, 13 Dec. 2021