Words similar to pleading

Example sentences for: pleading

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

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.
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.
Now he is on a ramble with his hand out and a pleading look in his roadmapped eyes.
The lawyer, Beth Eastern, is clearly more than a hired gun: She seems to be pleading as much for her own life as for her client's.
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.