How To Use Imploring In A Sentence
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There were also plenty of custom-house folks demanding fees to which they had no right, and sturdy rascals seeking buckshish, and miserable beggars imploring alms.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852
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Cosmo's right arm was raised, as if imploring an audience to listen carefully to some exquisite and elusive sound.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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She looked hopeful and imploring in her little blue smock, and I felt sorry for her.
Christianity Today
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Before announcing her candidacy, she and her husband first fasted for three days, all the while imploring, Lord, is this what you want?
American Grace
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Henrietta had written it again, and again had crept into his chamber and in whatever part of the house the magnate might now be found, he everywhere encountered this pale tremulous figure who pressing her hands together and without uttering a word gazed at him beseechingly, imploringly -- only they two knew why.
The Poor Plutocrats
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Hundreds of young survivors of the blaze, sweaty and black with soot, raised their arms to the sky as if imploring mercy or hugged each other - sharing pain, fear, anguish and a feeling of helplessness.
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The women, with tears and appealing gestures, crowded around the officer, begging him to spare their sons and husbands; the men stood silent, with bloodless faces and dumb imploring eyes.
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Have you seen commercials on television imploring you to use less water?
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Short stuff sat up on the slow surface, imploring the punishment meted out.
Times, Sunday Times
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Murray glanced at Amy, who gave him an imploring look, and, drawing a deep breath, he felt ready to diplomatise, give up self, and smother his indignation for the sake of those before him.
The Rajah of Dah
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The rest of my days will be spent in patching and painting and puttying and caulking my priceless possession and in looking the other way when an imploring argument or a damaging fact approaches.
What Is Man? and Other Essays
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He looked skywards, imploring silently to the heavens above, hoping for divine inspiration.
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The dog woofed and waived his tail, staring imploringly at his master.
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His entreaty is hard to swallow, given the biographical kernels in all of his plays, but easy to take, given the unguarded, imploring nature of his gaze.
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In this scene the child has become an occasion for female suffering and male anger, maternal imploring and comital defiance.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
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A wave, higher than any they yet had had to ride, came boiling down upon them ... and twisting, writhing, upcasting imploring arms to the elements -- the implacable elements -- a girl, a dark girl, entwined, imprisoned in silken garments, swept upon its crest!
The Yellow Claw
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This morning the Chief Executive Officer sent out an email imploring everyone to take all possible precautions in the current climate.
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JERUSALEM -- President Shimon Peres tapped former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday to lead Israel's next government, and the two leaders immediately started imploring Tzipi Livni, leader of the top vote-getting Kadima Party, to join the government to give Israel a united front.
Netanyahu, Given Nod, Pitches Unity Government
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Twice in the past week I've heard a commercial on the local ‘Urban’ station (don't ask) imploring people not to ignore bums and beggars on the street.
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Genuinely was sensibly imploringly than a solvable sandpile of easy krakatao in the earth, hurried therefor the farsightedness with all the pillar of a chemoreceptive sundew in diapason.
Rational Review
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The ammunition of the defenders of the bridge began to fail at this important crisis; messages, commanding and imploring succours and supplies, were in vain dispatched, one after the other, to the main body of the presbyterian army, which remained inactively drawn up on the open fields in the rear.
Old Mortality
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I have received an email imploring me to sign a petition that's probably an email harvester.
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The official leaders of the C.N.T. had joined with those of the U.G.T. in imploring everyone to go back to work; above all, food was running short.
Homage to Catalonia
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The newer work was commissioned for a concert of music derived from a Gregorian antiphon imploring the Lord for peace now, not later, ‘because there is no one else who will fight for us, if not You, our God.’
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This is me imploring the congregation of nurses at the first learning session to please, please, please put more people on treatment.
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Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram from the major, imploring me to come at once.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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In her association with the apostles and several women, ‘we also see Mary by her prayers imploring the gift of the Spirit, who had already overshadowed her in the Annunciation.’
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He addresses the viewer directly, imploringly, with a rose in hand.
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Those calm, strange eyes could see her imploring face.
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`You must help me,' she said imploringly
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Others called from the airport as they fought for places on outgoing flights, imploring him to collect their dogs and cats from their homes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Short stuff sat up on the slow surface, imploring the punishment meted out.
Times, Sunday Times
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All over their website are messages imploring those from grassroots up to behave.
The Sun
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She looked hopeful and imploring in her little blue smock, and I felt sorry for her.
Christianity Today
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Thus this work can be read as autobiographical, sometimes more specifically as representing a triangle in which the man is Rodin, the imploring young woman, Camille, and the old woman, Rose Beuret, or more generally as a symbolic representation of the painful break between Claudel and Rodin.
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Ashore there was a clamor for Scundoo, and the whole population crowded his door, entreating and imploring in confused babel till he came forth and raised his hand.
THE MASTER OF MYSTERY
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Behind his lord's back the herald lifted wrung hands, as if imploring her to stop.
A TIME OF WAR
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Former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, the authors wrote, considered Hillary an icy prima donna; her husband (who after exiting the White House often called Daschle, imploring him for help in burnishing his legacy) a narcissist on an epic scale; the dynamic between the couple, bizarre; their treatment of their friends, unforgivably manipulative and disloyal.
In 'Game Change,' the Clinton profile gets more complex
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He winced at her words but his eyes still met hers, imploring silence, comfort.
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Then an army officer came over, imploring the crowd to calm down and disperse.
Times, Sunday Times
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Surprisingly enough nor has Mr Clapton made that phone call imploring us to come and help him out at his Albert Hall gigs, despite us only ever managing to never get more than 12 Pages into Bert Weedon's Play With Yourself Every Day course.
Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On
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He even painted a huge mural over the pedestrian mall connecting King George with Aggripas, with a banner above his tag imploring us to “Just forgive/Idiot the Wise.”
If Something Happens To Me, Here’s Who Did It | Jewschool
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Her fingers clutched at the light material of his jacket sleeve as though imploring him to listen.
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The people prayed, wept, gnashed their teeth, pulled their hair, imploring the mercy of the Virgin Mary.
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There and then, he cast himself on the mercy of God, imploring him to forgive his sins and accept his soul for Christ's sake.
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‘Please Alex, we beg of you, don't,’ he beseeched imploringly.
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Wealthy in the learned misery of my cimmerian temperment, one imploringly seeks forbearance, from those who have made apocryphal thrones before those Muses; Calliope, Clio and Erato - disremember not that all things circumduct the calamity of Melpomeme and droll Thalia.
ShoutWire.com
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Exploration, however, depended upon private patronage despite theorists imploring that maritime expansionism should be state-sponsored.
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And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms around their knees, imploring them to stay.
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Cortes speaks to both of us at once - to him in rapid Spanish, to me in tentative English punctuated by long gaps in which he turns his limpid brown eyes my way, imploring me to help him find the missing words.
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Isabelle was standing at John's side, her face turning imploringly up to his, speaking softly, placatingly.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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K, Strip to your loincloth, begin drumming and doing your special Grizzly Dance, while imploring Brother Grizzly to impart his sacred wisdom.
Bears Kill Colorado Woman Who Fed Them
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In interviews, participants described those tensions, as well as offering the first descriptions of Mr. Obama's two difficult phone calls imploring Mr. Mubarak to take the protesters' demands seriously.
NYT > Home Page
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He detached himself from their imploring jewelled and knotted fingers, and bowed.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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One student, Erica Weitzner, reported getting four or five emails in addition to phone calls imploring her to contribute.
At Dartmouth And Cornell, Students Shamed For Not Giving To Class Gift Funds
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Road and cried Abies Magnifica! not, noble fir?) a quarter of nine, imploring his resipiency, saw the infallible spike of smoke’s jutstiff punctual from the seventh gable of our Quintus Centimachus’ porphyroid buttertower and then thirsty p.m. with oaths upon his lastingness (En caecos harauspices!
Finnegans Wake
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He pushed away from his desk and stood, his eyes imploring Homer to agree.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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She turned the sad imploring eyes away directly when they lighted upon a stranger.
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His voice died in a hard sob of imploring agony, -- smitten to the very soul by a remorse greater than he could bear, his strength failed him, and he fell senseless, face forward among the flowers of the Prophet's field; .. flowers that, circling snowily around his dark and prostrate form, looked like fairy garlands bordering
Ardath
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The horses were now more restive than ever, and Johann was trying to hold them in, while excitedly imploring me not to do anything so foolish.
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The flipside to all this fun comes at the end of 'side A' of Someone To Drive You Home during Heaven Help The New Girl, a campily dramatic break-up song that sees singer Kate Jackson imploring "Just go because you'll never be 19 again/ And I thought I told you before you don't need a boyfriend.
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Brent, now a neurosurgeon, remembers collaborating with Dudley on one trick played on a neighbourhood child who released a balloon with a tag imploring the finder to get in touch.
New BP boss Bob Dudley 'doesn't need to fake his empathy for the Gulf coast'
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All over their website are messages imploring those from grassroots up to behave.
The Sun
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Beauty's breath came in short imploring pants in time with her moans, and through her tears she saw Mistress Lockley looking down at her.
Beauty's Punishment
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Then an army officer came over, imploring the crowd to calm down and disperse.
Times, Sunday Times
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A British officer was shouting at the mob in Arabic, imploring them not to compel him to fire on them.
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