entreat

Optimists and happy warriors entreat us to lean on each other to get through these grim times, insisting that community is our strength.

From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2026

The signatories entreat him to rapidly expand testing to counter huge lines and speed up test results which can take two weeks.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2020

Muezzins in the West Bank and Kuwait entreat the faithful to avoid the mosque and instead pray at home.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2020

Likewise, he says he often gets impatient with people who entreat him to sign many items of memorabilia — most of which he believes will wind up sold online.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 13, 2017

He is a rabbit, but he is that cold, bad dream from which we can only entreat Lord Frith to save us today and tomorrow.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

In the story of Esther, Mordecai entreats his niece to step into her Jewishness to prevent atrocities from happening.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2025

Corgan and company plan to release the album in three parts, and the first glimpse, “Beguiled,” entreats the listener to “return the faith” over a metallic palm-muted riff reminiscent of the band’s old days.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2022

“Convert your Le Bijou apartment into a private health center,” entreats the company’s website.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2020

Complete with stadium-sized rainbows and giant pinwheels, she performed the track — in which she entreats listeners to give homophobes the cold shoulder — flanked by drag queens formerly of “RuPaul‘s Drag Race.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2019

So many tickets sell that after Uncle Al entreats the crowd to shift closer together for the fourth time, it becomes clear that this won’t be enough.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Stephen, called back from Paris as his mother was dying, is tormented a year later by his refusal to pray over her as she entreated him to do.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025

The prosecutor entreated the jury to hold the defendants “accountable not only for what they did but why they did it.”

From Washington Times ● Feb. 21, 2022

In his January TikTok post, he entreated: “Please make great art with this.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2021

When asked if the company had entreated merchants to help it lobby against the legislation, Amazon said its email spoke for itself.

From Reuters ● Aug. 18, 2021

Open that the Americans entreated him to become permanent director.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

That prompted the owner of Bookshop Santa Cruz, another local landmark, to print T-shirts and bumper stickers entreating fellow residents to “Keep Santa Cruz Weird.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

Afterward, Baekje turned its energy to upsetting the balance of power on the Korean peninsula by entreating Silla to rise against Goguryeo, its protector and overlord.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

In one, a Milanese lawyer asks the Vatican to intervene in favor of his Jewish clients; another is from nuns entreating the Vatican to help a family of Jews travel to the United States.

From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2022

“Come on, come,” the man can be heard entreating.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 17, 2022

I then wrote to Mrs. Fairfax, entreating information on the subject.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë