imploringly
Example Sentences
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In almost every case, at least one man, woman or child looks out from the penurious scene and stares squarely at the viewer, imploringly.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2023
Several times she beseeched the crowd to quieten down, gently at first, imploringly: “It really puts me uptight and I forget the words and I get nervous,” she told them three songs in.
From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2020
His most recent album is titled, almost imploringly, “The Blues Is Alive and Well,” and one of the cuts is “A Few Good Years”:
From The New Yorker • Mar. 4, 2019
The campaign, imploringly named Think Vermont, began in October.
From Slate • May 31, 2018
So he patiently broke twig after twig till he had made a little hole through which he peeped, saying imploringly, ‘Let me in! Let me in!’
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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