implore
verb (used with object)
had been imploring
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past perfect progressiveof implore.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Although county officials had been imploring people to stay home and for businesses to close, those were merely advisories.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2022
Sanders had been imploring his colleagues not to focus on price tags but rather on priorities — helping the middle class, fighting climate change, aiding older adults.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2021
Most were subjects listeners had been imploring me to do—like novelty songs, or Latin pop, or Yacht Rock, or country music, or Lilith Fair.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2020
She noted tartly that the United States had been imploring him to appoint a vice president for three decades.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2011
What they were I cannot remember, but Panhandle's reply seems to indicate that I had been imploring him to tell me what kind of a ghost he was.
From All Men are Ghosts by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks
