- present participle of implore.
imploring
Example Sentences
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These same people are now hard at work imploring Moreno, “just don’t read The Times today.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
Rob Murray sent videos of Rice to programs across the country, imploring their recruiters to come see the sweet lefty swing for themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
But in a way, you were doing exactly that with your friend by imploring him to shift his funds into assets that would yield a return of 8% to 9%, even before inflation.
From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026
The secretary and pharmacist and my kid’s baseball coach ask, “How are you feeling?,” silently imploring me to give them a cancer update without making them ask.
From Slate ● May 6, 2026
Later, he would describe the chant as the “sad, imploring wail we’ve all got buried in our hearts—the sound of begging someone, anyone, to hear us.”
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
