Example Sentences

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We see an anxious Orlando interacting with the lineup of women: “Come on, you wrote me,” she says, almost pleadingly, as if Woolf could posthumously amend the story.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2022

And even in that moment, I remember looking at her sort of pleadingly like, “Say more. There’s something else you want to say, Gerri, and you’re just saying, ‘How does it serve my interest?’”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2022

“Do you understand?” he looks at me pleadingly, and I nod.

From The Verge • Apr. 28, 2020

As he lay on the ground, the fan stretched his arms toward Ronaldo, almost pleadingly.

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2018

“Paris will always be Paris,” Maurice Chevalier sang, if pleadingly, in 1939—but the City of Lights was rarely illuminated.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee