imploring
Example Sentences
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In the following months, Owens bombarded him with texts and emails, imploring him to date her and promising to carry the pregnancy to term if he didn’t respond.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
On your way out, be sure to leave books on the bright orange carts featuring signs of Yoda imploring guests to follow the golden rule: “Reshelve, do not. Leave books here, you must!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
But in a way, you were doing exactly that with your friend by imploring him to shift his funds into assets that would yield a return of 8% to 9%, even before inflation.
From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026
The secretary and pharmacist and my kid’s baseball coach ask, “How are you feeling?,” silently imploring me to give them a cancer update without making them ask.
From Slate ● May 6, 2026
Later, he would describe the chant as the “sad, imploring wail we’ve all got buried in our hearts—the sound of begging someone, anyone, to hear us.”
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
