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

As be came out of the store with it in his hand, Hyde looked at him with a steady imploration.

From The Maid of Maiden Lane by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Perry, pale as death and still of feeble brain, had arisen as he spoke and made this imploration with only the eloquence of haggard forgetfulness.

From Tales of the Chesapeake by Townsend, George Alfred

Her tears dropped upon the ivory image of the Crucified, and sympathetic tears sprung into Antonia's and Isabel's eyes, as they listened to her imploration.

From Remember the Alamo by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston