imploration
Example Sentences
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On “Chemical,” a woozy, spectral meditation on the intoxication of love, the chorus becomes an imploration: “And love is a chemical / Start it, start it again,” he sings, his voice dissipating into mist.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 25, 2019
The book seems, on its face, to be a relatively benign imploration towards politeness.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 26, 2016
Perry, pale as death and still of feeble brain, had arisen as he spoke and made this imploration with only the eloquence of haggard forgetfulness.
From Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend
Romola Borria was cringing, shrinking as if to efface herself from a terrible scene, against the French window, and staring at him with a look of wild imploration, of horror, of—death!
From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Gayle Porter Hoskins
As they were leading him off, he broke away and kissed my feet, and, by piteous dumb imploration, insisted I should go with him; and I went.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Lewis Wallace
