Example sentences for: pleading

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

  • 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.

  • Tina Brown stood stunningly on the pier illuminated by camera lights in the gathering dusk in a white number and greeted some arrivees individually, causing a traffic jam and throwing the headset/flashlight crew into frenzied pleading: "This way, please.

  • Writings by the imprisoned Chinese political activist are granted a place "among the classics of the 20 th century literature of dissent, alongside the writings of figures like Vaclav Havel, Vladmir Bukovsky and Adam Michnik" (Richard Bernstein, the New York Times ). The collection mainly consists of letters, written from prison to Chinese leaders, pleading the case for democracy.

  • Livingston's decision not to assume the speakership (and to quit Congress next year) is attributed mainly to pleading from his wife, but also to the fury of a small band of conservative Republican members who threatened not to support him in the January vote to choose a new speaker.

  • At that point, we will control the industry and be able to extract the rich monopoly profits waiting to be had from poetry, book reviews, essays pleading for entitlement reform, explanations of developments in foreign countries, and similar product lines.


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