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Example sentences for: plead

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

If an undercover cop bought cocaine from a person carrying a kilogram of the drug, the seller could not plead entrapment, even if coercion were involved in the sale, since his intent to sell was clear.
He remained, Newsweek wrote in a typical review, "careless of the record, heedless of the proper limits of power, unable to plead guilty to anything much worse than 'screwing up' and coming no closer in history to that final absolution in history he seeks."
Mary Rose Oakar, D-Ohio, will plead guilty to evading campaign-finance laws.
The days when we felt sorry for the famous are over--nowadays, we dislike stars who plead confusion, insecurity, and no common sense.
I have to plead amnesia on what Nixon and Podhoretz said exactly.