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

“Will you be kind enough to leave me!” came from behind the veil, in accents of mingled imploration and anger.

From Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star by Standish, Burt L.

She knew not why, and yet in her soul there was a dark, swelling sorrow which would not for any adjuration of Scripture nor any imploration of prayer, be stilled.

From The Measure of a Man by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)

Wherewith the junior operator swung half around in the swivel-chair and exposed to Peter an expression of mild imploration.

From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Hoskins, Gayle Porter