pleading

How To Use pleading In A Sentence

• Just getting anyone in the area to tell the platoon where the former mukhtar lived had taken three months of pleading, and after several false leads that day, the soldiers had found him. The Coming Normalcy?
• A teenager, scarred for life when she was bottled in the face in a nightclub row, is pleading for witnesses to come forward.
• The obscurity of the pleading which is, if I may so with respect to the drafter of it, exceedingly clever, because the pleading is in terms always of a duty of care to do something and it is there the elision of two very separate ideas.
• The City had done a serious effort to take out beggars from the streets, yet the very cold streets were lined with immobile figures frozen in submissive, pleading positions. Why Does Homelessness Persist in Rich Liberal Cities?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• She said: ‘I was panicking, fretting, crying and pleading with him to give me back my daughter.’
• Their view is that many of the birds and animals are exclusive to the river and its banks, so they are pleading with Roads Service to move the road northwards, away from the river.
• And a man who ran alongside a tow truck, pleading to get his vehicle back after it was towed from a fire lane, died when he slipped and was run over by the truck and then his own Chevrolet Suburban. Boing Boing: July 24, 2005 - July 30, 2005 Archives
• It is not enough to deflect problems by invoking due process or by pleading ignorance. Times, Sunday Times
• As we came closer we could make out two men in a life raft with dye marker showing and flailing their arms wildly in the air pleading to be seen.
• Though she was a fine soloist with vocal training, she refused, pleading no experience in choral work. Christianity Today