Example sentences for: entreaties

How can you use “entreaties” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • House Speaker Newt Gingrich has spurned Democratic entreaties to offer Clinton a plea bargain short of impeachment.

  • And although these papers and the LAT all communicate the same basic facts about yesterday's events--that Arafat responded to Albright's demands by promising full cooperation in the fight against anti-Israeli terrorism and that Netanyahu was very cool toward her entreaties to him to cease land confiscations, home demolitions, settlement building, confiscation of IDs and the embargoing of tax revenues belonging to the Palestinian authority--their headlines differ in what they emphasize.

  • Franco kept Spain out of World War II, despite Hitler’s entreaties to the contrary.

  • Supreme Court rejected these entreaties, saying, variously, that 1) Breard had failed to protest in state courts; 2) access to a consular official would probably not have changed his insistence on pleading innocence (against his lawyers' advice); 3) the murder was especially vicious; 4) the case (complete with DNA tests and the defendant's confession) was open-and-shut; and 5) an apology to Paraguay would suffice.

  • He states that he has been influenced by the entreaties of Jesse Ventura and further convinced of the appropriateness of running by the tepid response among Republican candidates to Pat Buchanan's Hitler remarks.


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