implore
verb (used with object)
is imploring
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present progressiveof implore (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The audits will be done by Caltrans staff riding or walking through the corridor, but the agency is imploring the community to participate in the audits and future meetings, Tavares said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024
When Leila’s grandmother says that, it is imploring Leila to be empathetic, and not to think of her mother in the present tense, but to think of her as a 14-year-old and what that meant.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2023
Sister Helen Prejean is imploring both church and state to be “pro-life” even for the guilty.
From Slate ● Aug. 23, 2022
In other words, the man who has made “All Gas, No Brake” the team’s mantra is imploring those observers from outside the facility to pump the brakes.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2021
He offers his right hand to the old woman, who on her knees is imploring him for a little more delay.
From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce
