Example sentences for: entreaties

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

  • I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for These States--I press with slow rude muscle, I brace myself effectually--I listen to no entreaties, I dare not withdraw till I deposit what has so long accumulated within me, Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself,

  • 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.

  • If you have no interest in children, or these particular children, decline the entreaties ...

  • For example, some years ago the xerography pioneer took out half-page ads in the New York Times to remind us that Xerox is a trademark to be used only as a proper noun, as in Xerox machine , or a proper adjective, as in Xerox copy . In either case, warned the ad, we must capitalize Xerox . Despite such entreaties, the word xerox seems to have become generic, if not according to the courts, then at least according to current American usage, where it occurs freely as noun, adjective, and even verb, with or without capitalization.

  • 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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