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How to use proffer in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun, verb

Proffer means an offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender. Example: “Even children have been proffering up their nickels for the charity drive.”

Examples of proffer by meaning

nounAn offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender.

  • "Oh no," she refused demurely at their proffer of coffee.1980 August 2, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, page 15

verbTo offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of.

  • to proffer friendship, a gift, or services
  • He proffered a pact to Satan, calling upon the Fiend and working himself into a frenzy - but his infernal majesty failed to respond.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 119
  • The queen rises up and takes Edward from me, and proffers the sleeping child to the king.2011, Philippa Gregory, “Windsor Castle, Winter 1454”, in The Lady of the Rivers (The Cousins’ War), London: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN

More sentences with proffer

  • Even children have been proffering up their nickels for the charity drive.From the entry proffer up
  • They're proffering up a new contract.From the entry proffer up
  • I also have carefully considered the arguments proffered by the parties.2023 December 28, Shenna Bellows, “Ruling of the Secretary of State”, in State of Maine Secretary of State, archived from the original on…. From the entry stakes
  • You must accept a proffered Pique Ant ambassador, as you are pique ants too.2007, Piers Anthony, Stork Naked. From the entry antly
  • She took the proffered cheque and stared at it with puzzled amaze, dazed by her own behaviour.1985, Lawrence Durrell, “Quinx”, in The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, Quinx, London: Faber and Faber, published…. From the entry amaze
  • In this sense it may be said that these sciences proffer us eternal truths.1937, Jacques Maritain, Bernard Wall, Margot Robert Adamson, Degrees of Knowledge, page 43. From the entry euclidian
  • The Cabinet, when faced with this proffered omnipotence, had recoiled in fear.1932, Harold Nicolson, “Public Faces”, in The Spectator, volume 149, page 558. From the entry the bomb
  • “We need a Marshall Plan hic et nunc” proffered a man who, to camera and in profile, looked like a sole.2012, Alain Mabanckou, Black Bazaar, →ISBN. From the entry hic et nunc
  • Are works of literature affected if the facts they proffer as facts are not facts, and demonstrably so?1996, Christopher B. Ricks, Essays in Appreciation. From the entry outdatable
  • From each candlelit nook stared in stony despair one after another saint, regal and rueful: proffering forgiveness, peace, a todo.1970, Wilfrido D. Nolledo, chapter 19, in But for the Lovers, Dalkey Archive Press, page 165. From the entry empty
  • "I mean, hit's a toad-strangler of a rain," he proffered.1940, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, When the whippoorwill. From the entry toad-strangler
  • Harrison was pretty well ginned-up when his guests arrived and he had proffered drinks freely and hospitably ever since.1925, J. Allan Dunn, The Three Traders. From the entry gin up
  • I proffer a development of some third order equation of motion for the free relativistic top from the simultaneously imposed assumptions of variationality and Lorentz symmetry..2016, Roman Matsyuk, “Third order variational equation for the free relativistic top”, in Collected Physical Papers. Shevchenko Scientific…. From the entry variationality
  • There is only a small window in which to proffer elevatorial banter - like the rodeo and that ne'er seen Luke Perry movie - about eight seconds .2011 May 24, Phineas Mollod, Jason Tesauro, The Modern Gentleman, 2nd Edition: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy, and Vice, Ten Speed…. From the entry elevatorial
  • Tex Mex II proffers authentically fun Texican fare with an element of theatricality that brightens the face with a smile and the contented glaze of Tequila besozzlement.2011 February 23, Ben Kendall, “Tex Mex II”, in The Journal, number XLIV, University of Edinburgh, archived from the original on 27 Feb…. From the entry besozzlement
  • Lady Jean was unwilling to cleave to her religion at first throwing the reverend’s proffered bible against the wall and dismissing his preaching as ‘trittle trattle’.2003 June 15, Skelton, Douglas, Deadlier Than The Male Scotland's Most Wicked Women. From the entry trittle trattle
  • I found myself in the sort of auric equivalent of the Pope's private chapel, and there were insect elf machines proffering strange little tablets with strange writing on them.1988, Diana Reed Slattery, quoting Terence McKenna, Xenolinguistics: Psychedelics, Language, and the Evolution of Consciousness, Berkeley…. From the entry machine elf
  • He had enjoyed his Mexican holiday, and still was unable to proffer a bit of kindness to the woman who had waited patiently, busying herself with housewifely duties.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 31, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 207. From the entry housewifely

Meaning of proffer

  1. noun An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender.
  2. noun An attempt, an essay.
  3. verb To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of.

Full definition of proffer

Questions about proffer in a sentence

How do you use proffer in a sentence?
Proffer is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Even children have been proffering up their nickels for the charity drive.”
What is a short sentence with proffer?
“They're proffering up a new contract.”
What does proffer mean?
Proffer means an offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender.

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