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How to use oblige in a sentence

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Jazz bands without drums or bass oblige the remaining participants to be extremely industrious.
He ran an amiable trade in insights and mots justes, which he would oblige you to exchange, whether you were up to it or not.
Deborah Welsh had been a flight attendant for 25 years and hated early flights, but had agreed to trade shifts to oblige a colleague.
Legal requirements oblige voters to indicate a vote, in order of preference, to every candidate on the ballot paper.
They asked for Abel as a playmate and companion to begin with and Mr Davis was pleased to oblige.
I asked if she could oblige me with some milk and she gladly gave me some in my container.
This will oblige hundreds of farmers to limit their use of chemical fertilisers and animal manure.
A useful filly in the making, Montana Miss can oblige again tomorrow in the hands of ton-up jockey Kevin Darley.
Jamie Osborne's recent course-and-distance winner is fancied to oblige again in the hands of Michael Fenton.
The firm was not entitled to oblige him to cover his position, to refuse to allow him to trade or to close off his open positions.
Factory owners regularly oblige overtime hours, pregnancy tests, dismiss and blacklist workers suspected of union organizing.
However, the resolution was only advisory and did not oblige the head of state to do anything.
We refer to the rules which oblige a trial judge to warn the jury of the danger of convicting upon the uncorroborated evidence of an accomplice.
As for my bogging off, I can not oblige until such time as Melissa bars me.
I simply can't! Anything to oblige and all that sort of thing, but when it comes to cooing, distinctly Napoo!
Long after Narrative Discourse, narratologists continue to be alarmed at the modernist novel's failure to oblige a contract of comprehension.
If you oblige many men to be money-lenders, some will assuredly be usurers.
In that sense the Queen Mother retained to her final days a spirit of noblesse oblige that may be increasingly out of fashion in today's Britain.
He waits for this to sink in, and I oblige by widening my eyes and licking my chapped lips.
The convention will oblige signatories, including Ireland, to enact new legislation to bring the provisions into effect.
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He was only too happy to oblige where Martin had disobliged, and Gloucester married the heiress of Holland.
Please acknowledge the receipt of the letter and box, and oblige the Anti-slavery Society of Ellington.
He's so popular they start in to oblige him, and then, someway, he makes them all interested.
But noblesse oblige, and we must serve those who have not had our good fortune.
For the sinfulness of the imposer's act proveth no more, but that such a command did not oblige you to vow.
Will you oblige me so far as not to appear in the dress of Tancred to-night?
This reform of the Alphabet would oblige people to relearn the language, or it could not be introduced.
Hicksey said he couldn't oblige him on the spot, but had to send him to Rangoon.
Instead, he set about doing them favours, that so they might be the more willing to oblige him.
James, perhaps least of all the Stuarts, illustrated the principle of noblesse oblige.
He heard me benignantly, but said he regretted that it was not in his power to oblige me.
The attitude of the true noble, one in whom noblesse oblige is a simple example of what, mutatis mutandis, all men feel.
Nevertheless, if you oblige me to, you will make the acquaintance of the jail for recalcitrants.
They missed something of the noblesse oblige which was to them as a matter of course.
Now, Sir, will you oblige me by putting your finger in the bowls to test whether there is any tobacco there or not?
It has the advantage of fifty orifices in his bill, through which he occasionally sings melodious songs to oblige the company.
A reference to a work of authority on the subject will oblige a provincialist.
One grand objection against this proposal is, how you will oblige people to pay either their subscription or their quarterage.
If ever you see George again, sir, you will oblige me by conveying one message.
The remedy was, to thrust them forward into the centre of the schoolroom, and oblige them to stand there till the sermon was finished.
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