supplicate

Namo Buddha, I supplicate the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the three times and ten directions to bestow Their blessings upon Your Majesties.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2023

“All the statements from Kirill are constantly, ‘Let’s do things peacefully, lets pray and supplicate.’

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2022

And if it would help to fall at her feet and supplicate myself, I would.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2019

So dire was Britain's economic predicament that it had been humiliatingly obliged to supplicate for a loan from the International Monetary Fund.

From US News ● Jul. 14, 2016

After much hesitation Lauzun consented that Mademoiselle should write a letter in which she should supplicate the King to forget all that he had said against mixed marriages, and permit her to be happy.

From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Arvede Barine

Sir, a wretch who has lost everything dear, supplicates your compassion.

From The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

When one supplicates to his Lord, turns to Him and seeks bounty from His Ocean, this supplication brings light to his heart, illumination to his sight, life to his soul and exaltation to his being.

From Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era by J. E. (John Ebenezer) Esslemont

No—his son, by the call of nature, supplicates his freedom.

From Such Things Are A Play, in Five Acts by Mrs. Inchbald

He remembers you and all the N.S.A. members in his prayers most lovingly, and supplicates for your success and that strength may be given you to discharge your many important duties.

From Unfolding Destiny by Shoghi Effendi

A letter addressed to Mazarin, and signed by four of these, Fabert at the head, supplicates him to arrest the ravages of a foreigner in the services of France, M. de Rosen.

From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Arvede Barine

A lama supplicated the heavenly waters by burning incense before an altar for three days.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Brain,” she supplicated faintly, “Brain, do you hear me?”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

And then the prayers which had seemed cold and lifeless on her lips when she had supplicated for George Gilbert's restoration took a new colour, and were as if inspired.

From The Doctor's Wife by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

A hooded monk from the cloisters of Affaf Woira stood before the throne with a peace-offering from those who supplicated pardon, and clemency was graciously extended.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris

When Time, the avenger, hurled her from her despotic throne, she supplicated, because she could not command, and moderated her pretensions, because she dare not assert them.

From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger

But this year, the vibe once again seems to have shifted—this time, away from supplicating the reelected president.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

From noon to midnight, it is alive with the buzz of crowded restaurants, supplicating panhandlers, weaving motorcycles, and pushy vendors.

From The Verge ● Aug. 11, 2022

As I do them, moving my legs one way, my arms the other, bending and supplicating my spine, I can hear my sacral joints clicking, realigning, settling themselves, speaking to me.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2018

Fallon pretended to be a supplicating fan of Tom Hanks, who dropped a twenty on him without batting an eye.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2015

When Mariam had seen her, Fariba said, she had asked in a high, supplicating voice, It’s normal, isn’t it ?

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini