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 they were leading him off, he broke away and kissed my feet, and, by piteous dumb imploration, insisted I should go with him; and I went.

From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis

She sat by him still, however, and poured out sentence after sentence of question, insistence, imploration, and pity, eliciting no answer at all.

From The Rose-Garden Husband by Widdemer, Margaret

Further imploration would be out of place, she must not insist too much.

From The Untilled Field by Moore, George (George Augustus)