implore
verb (used with object)
imploration
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a word derived from
implore.
Example Sentences
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On “Chemical,” a woozy, spectral meditation on the intoxication of love, the chorus becomes an imploration: “And love is a chemical / Start it, start it again,” he sings, his voice dissipating into mist.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 25, 2019
The book seems, on its face, to be a relatively benign imploration towards politeness.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 26, 2016
Romola Borria was cringing, shrinking as if to efface herself from a terrible scene, against the French window, and staring at him with a look of wild imploration, of horror, of—death!
From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Gayle Porter Hoskins
“Will you be kind enough to leave me!” came from behind the veil, in accents of mingled imploration and anger.
From Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star by Burt L. Standish
Her tears dropped upon the ivory image of the Crucified, and sympathetic tears sprung into Antonia's and Isabel's eyes, as they listened to her imploration.
From Remember the Alamo by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
