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Pleading
"Pleading" in a Sentence (15 examples)
It's no use pleading because they'll never give in.
She took out a full-page ad in the newspaper pleading for help in finding her kidnapped daughter.
Tom gave up running for mayor after pleading guilty to drunken driving.
Tom served five days in jail last year after pleading guilty to drunken driving.
Have you been threatened or coerced into pleading guilty?
Layla was pleading for her life.
Sami was pleading for his life.
He was pleading for his life.
He gave up running for mayor after pleading guilty to drunken driving.
Yanni was pleading with Skura not to leave him alone.
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But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.
Franchise, relaxed and soothed by the vagueness of a surrender set so far in the future, simply took hold of his two hands to make him behave himself and looked at him with her pretty pleading eyes — the eyes of a sensitive woman who didn't want to risk having a child by anyone but her husband.
With a pleading look, she raised her eyes to him.
Have but a pleading heart and God will have a plenteous hand.
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
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