Use courted in a sentence - Example Sentences for courted
He courted disaster by reckless driving.
There is much truth, therefore, in the beautiful allegory of Socrates, who tells us, that Pleasure and Pain were sisters, who, however, met with a very different reception by mankind on their visit to the earth; the former being universally courted, while the latter was carefully avoided: on this account, Pain petitioned Jupiter, who decreed that they should not be parted; and that whoever embraced the one, obtained also the other.
No girl likes to do her own wooing; she must be courted; she must be won.
His gallantry to my Lady, which has never changed since he courted her, is the one little touch of romantic fancy in him.
But I know from his lips that he long ago suspected Lady Dedlock of having discovered, through the sight of some handwriting-in this very house, and when you yourself, Sir Leicester Dedlock, were present-the existence, in great poverty, of a certain person who had been her lover before you courted her and who ought to have been her husband.
She courted Jip, though Jip never responded; listened, day after day, to the guitar, though I am afraid she had no taste for music; never attacked the Incapables, though the temptation must have been severe; went wonderful distances on foot to purchase, as surprises, any trifles that she found out Dora wanted; and never came in by the garden, and missed her from the room, but she would call out, at the foot of the stairs, in a voice that sounded cheerfully all over the house: 'Where's Little Blossom?
But I am perplexed by the avidity with which I am being courted, because of one simple fact: There aren't that many of me.
An article claims that Clinton "sandbagged" Jesse Jackson in 1995 and 1996 to prevent a primary challenge: The president courted black mayors, refused a budget deal with the Republicans, and steered funding to Jesse Jackson Jr.
Other revolutionaries have courted the press: Castro practically lives for sound bites, and the Zapatistas are better at planning press conferences than battles.
Meanwhile, he courted Russia's support for his escapades, raising the specter of a Cold War-style standoff.
If so, it could mean that male adulterers are now a voting bloc that must be courted! -- John Raley San Francisco Radical Chic Paul Berman seems to suggest in "The Refractory Ones" that the case of Timothy McVeigh is somehow analogous to the trial of Sacco-Vanzetti, in that a misunderstood radical faction was descended upon by a bigoted majority that then executed the sacrificial lambs.
Yet even as their votes in Congress are courted this week by Republican leaders and the White House, their ranks seem in no danger of expanding.
Schlumpy theater director Gillian Anderson is courted by a Mr.
Trial lawyers courted him and his party with tons of money.
He has plotted strategy, assembled a campaign team, pitched to donors, courted politicians, and written letters to potential allies in key states.
He has conspicuously courted former Christian Coalition executive director Ralph Reed, and in January he made a pilgrimage to coalition founder Pat Robertson.
" Milosevic, by "his bestial behavior," had courted the disaster now befalling his country, the paper said, but it added: "The world is full of beasts.
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