entreat

How To Use entreat In A Sentence

• What good did come from my first crusade was due chiefly to him; a kind of revivalist spirit was upon him, and many unsuspecting freshers who had only thought of the river as a place to avoid, were unable to resist his entreaties. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate
• The story begins with Balak, king of the Moabites, entreating Balaam to ‘curse me this people for he is too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite him, and that I may drive him out of the land ’.
• [From Vivaculus:]… I hasted to London, and entreated one of my academical acquaintances to introduce me into some of the little societies of literature which are formed in taverns and coffee - houses.
• Perhaps you can entreat some strapping young lad into educating you in the ways of the world.
• And I'm bound to say that my entreaties did not fall on deaf ears.
• I clasped my hands in entreaty, and Uncle Geoff had such a funny look in his eyes that I quite stared at him. The Boys and I: A Child's Story for Children
• It was a woman's voice: quiet, controlled, underlaid with an odd note of entreaty.
• The necromancer appealed for my support, entreating me to stand firm by him, and to have assafetida flung upon the coals; so I turned to Vincenzio Romoli, and told him to make the fumigation at once. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
• One can affect unawareness, feign indifference or summon up some other defense against such entreaties.
• She wasn't in tears; she was if anything brusque, her tone between command and entreaty. A WORM OF DOUBT