Example sentences for: pleading

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

  • Pinochet peacefully relinquished power, his former opponents are pleading for his return.

  • Today the area is better known for the merry-makers who swarm its bars late into the night and spill out onto the streets; disgruntled residents hang signs from their windows pleading with the municipal government to impose quiet hours.

  • Even a statement very close to the periphery can be held true in the face of recalcitrant experience by pleading hallucination or by amending certain statements of the kind called logical laws.

  • If it had succeeded Murdoch would have offered the first serious competition to the cable monopolies--the very choice that politicians and consumer advocates have been pleading for.

  • 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.


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