plea
Example Sentences
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Zhao did not directly throw a match but was initially suspended for two and a half years, reduced to one year and eight months after his early admissions and guilty plea.
From BBC
Augustine told The Times she was offered different plea deals in the course of a few months, but decided to take her chances before a jury.
From Los Angeles Times
The dictator is clearly nervous, alternating between pleas for “peace” and defiant calls for national resistance.
But then, Waldie concludes by citing a Spanish-language corrido about the disaster: “Friends, I leave you/with this sad song/and with a plea to heaven/For those taken by the flood.”
From Los Angeles Times
His mum Gemma issued a plea on local Facebook pages for a Santa to come to their home in Netherton to give her son a final Christmas experience.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
