supplicants

例句:

• It may even need more as the list of supplicants grows.
  由于申请这个基金的企业在增多,所以也许也许还需要更多的资金.
  
• Watching the body language at these encounters is especially telling, for the politicians usually come across as supplicants.
  来自BBC
• It was an uneasy ending because, in fact, the supplicants are no more than collateral for a private, interagency joke.
  来自THETIMES
• He grew visibly impatient with the speeches and began barking commands to those around him as his supplicants droned on.
  来自NEWYORKER