supplicate

Example Sentences

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Namo Buddha, I supplicate the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the three times and ten directions to bestow Their blessings upon Your Majesties.

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2023

“All the statements from Kirill are constantly, ‘Let’s do things peacefully, lets pray and supplicate.’

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2022

And if it would help to fall at her feet and supplicate myself, I would.

From The Guardian • Dec. 28, 2019

So dire was Britain's economic predicament that it had been humiliatingly obliged to supplicate for a loan from the International Monetary Fund.

From US News • Jul. 14, 2016

To supplicate no God, their Lips will move, Who speaks in Thunder like Almighty Jove, But watry Deities they do invoke, Who from the Marshes most Divinely croak.

From Selected Poems (1685-1700) by Tutchin, John