Examples of courted

• Private and especially corporate sponsors might be courted, and once a sponsor is found, the corporation's products would be advertised in a well-publicised exhibition.

• I don't remember a single person of my acquaintance being courted with flowers or chocolates.

• She is then courted by a powerful and well-placed man.

• Each attempt between the wars had courted unrest and unpopularity, with debates peppered with emotion and passionate language.

• In the laboratory, infected males readily built nests, developed red nuptial coloration, and courted females.

• As a significant source of potential votes for an insurgent candidacy, a nascent movement is likely to be recognized and even courted by partisans.

• Under laboratory conditions the parasite did not prevent reproduction whereas few infected males courted females in the field.

• Their support was not needed, and therefore they were not courted.

• Thus, of the infected males in the field, only the largest males with the lowest parasite index courted females.

• On the contrary, it actively courted its support and welcomed the (usually nominal) involvement of senior government and court figures in its activities.

• These managers became power brokers, courted by vanilla merchants and timber companies.

• The manager, in turn, became something of a development celebrity, courted by a number of different donors.

• Americans of the baby boom are being courted by large numbers of marketers, not for their seemingly endless youth but for their encroaching middle age.

• Even more incongruously it had made him a figure to be courted, albeit not always with great appetite, by the cultural and artistic intelligentsia that had heretofore scorned him.

• The parties both courted and intimidated delegates.