Example Sentences

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McCarthy has been pleading with Biden to come to the negotiating table, to no avail.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2023

Kyiv has been pleading for months for hundreds of modern battle tanks to reinforce its battered Soviet-era fleet.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2023

Jones has been pleading with Rolovich to consider the consequences of his decision.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2021

A longtime smoker whose doctor has been pleading with her to get a COVID-19 shot, she fears side effects, mentioning a friend who battled two weeks of headaches, diarrhea and vomiting after getting vaccinated.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2021

Yonder in the West a man has been pleading before courts, praying to God, thinking, and dreaming.

From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by Dickey, J. M. (John Marcus)