intercede

Example Sentences

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Intercede for our world, in such turmoil and great danger,″ the pope prayed, in apparent reference to widespread anxiety that the Israeli-Hamas war could quickly develop into a wider, regional war in the Middle East.

From Washington Times • Oct. 28, 2023

Intercede for us in London, where I completed my studies, and in Paris, where my father’s memory was honored this spring by the naming of a pathway for him in the Champs-Élysées gardens.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2021

Intercede and interpose are used in a good sense; intermeddle always in a bad sense, and interfere frequently so.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

"Intercede for me, Master," he muttered, "keep me in the narrow path intent on Thy work."

From Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life by Anderson, Sherwood

Intercede for me, that I may be truly sensible of the diseases that I labor under, and thankfully embrace the means which thy goodness has ordained for my recovery.

From Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton by Various