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
As be came out of the store with it in his hand, Hyde looked at him with a steady imploration.
From The Maid of Maiden Lane by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
"Give me water—for the love of Heaven, water!" was the harshly whispered imploration.
From Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends by Standish, Burt L.
Oh, if she had but once looked at his face, she could not have resisted its beauty, its sorrow, its imploration!
From Remember the Alamo by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
