entreaty

How to use entreaty in a sentence

• He resisted that entreaty to spend two years writing his best-selling memoir, My American Journey.

  Colin Powell Was the Epitome of America’s Promise | Margaret Carlson | November 5, 2021 | The Daily Beast

• With that no longer a reliable source, they’ve been more vulnerable to the entreaties of a militant group willing to pay them a steady income to take up arms against a discredited regime — one that let them down.

  Butterfly Effect: Why Spies Need to Focus on Climate Change | Charu Kasturi | September 16, 2021 | Ozy

• No matter how he pleaded, no matter the entreaties of witnesses on the scene, Chauvin was unmoved.

  Derek Chauvin’s Guilty and So Is the Whole Damn System | Goldie Taylor | April 20, 2021 | The Daily Beast

• Pfizer, which has already committed to providing the government 100 million doses, said that as recently as October, federal officials had turned down its entreaties to lock in another 100 million doses.

  States report confusion as government reduces vaccine shipments, while Pfizer says it has ‘millions’ of unclaimed doses | Isaac Stanley-Becker, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Lena H. Sun, Josh Dawsey | December 17, 2020 | Washington Post

• Her glance wandered from his face away toward the Gulf, whose sonorous murmur reached her like a loving but imperative entreaty.

  The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate Chopin