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Example sentences for: pleads

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An editorial penned by Angela Davis, June Jordan, and Alice Walker pleads for the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
At the "I Love Monica Lewinsky" site, a gentleman with a powerful crush pleads with Lewinsky to do the Penthouse nude spread:
In the notes, Barton also pleads not guilty to the 1993 murder of his first wife and her mother (he had been the prime suspect in the case), saying "there's no reason for me to lie now."
The Globe runs what it says is Martin's "open letter" to Shepherd, in which he pleads with her to "open [her] heart and do what's right" by repaying him the $4,000 she reportedly owes him.
That is also the name of Johnson's recent book--a 175-page tract that pleads for still more subsidies while cloaking itself in high-mindedness.