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
A feeling of helpless pity went through me as he sank to his knees in hysterical imploration, but I steeled myself against him.
From The Homicidal Diary by Peirce, Earl
Oh, if she had but once looked at his face, she could not have resisted its beauty, its sorrow, its imploration!
From Remember the Alamo by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
Wherewith the junior operator swung half around in the swivel-chair and exposed to Peter an expression of mild imploration.
From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Hoskins, Gayle Porter
