imploration
Example Sentences
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On “Chemical,” a woozy, spectral meditation on the intoxication of love, the chorus becomes an imploration: “And love is a chemical / Start it, start it again,” he sings, his voice dissipating into mist.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2019
The book seems, on its face, to be a relatively benign imploration towards politeness.
From The Guardian • Nov. 26, 2016
Joyce Basil held up her hand in imploration, but Reybold did not heed the woman's remark.
From Tales of the Chesapeake by Townsend, George Alfred
She knew not why, and yet in her soul there was a dark, swelling sorrow which would not for any adjuration of Scripture nor any imploration of prayer, be stilled.
From The Measure of a Man by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)
Further imploration would be out of place, she must not insist too much.
From The Untilled Field by Moore, George (George Augustus)
