entreat

Example Sentences

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Optimists and happy warriors entreat us to lean on each other to get through these grim times, insisting that community is our strength.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2026

To that end, I entreat Afghanistan’s friends in the West to intercede for us in Washington and in New York, with Congress and with the Biden administration.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2021

“We believe these statements represent grave errors of judgment and a lapse in pastoral responsibility,” the letter said, “and we entreat you to reconsider them.”

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2020

The signatories entreat him to rapidly expand testing to counter huge lines and speed up test results which can take two weeks.

From The Guardian • Aug. 8, 2020

My baby, my blood, my honest truth: entreat me not to leave thee, for whither thou goest I will go.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver