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Example sentences for: courted

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If so, it could mean that male adulterers are now a voting bloc that must be courted!
He has conspicuously courted former Christian Coalition executive director Ralph Reed, and in January he made a pilgrimage to coalition founder Pat Robertson.
The Chinese, especially those identifying with Mao Tse Tung’s combat against the Japanese, were at first massacred in the thousands, but later courted as middlemen for Japanese-run business operations.
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.
I courted, in fact paid for it.