How to Use entreaty in a Sentence

entreaty

noun
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  • That request may only be an opening entreaty, the people say.
    — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Darling, in a delicious early scene, tries to resist entreaties to join the developing women’s-rights movement.
    — Mayukh Sen, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Even so, the entreaty from Cohen was too good to pass up.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 14 May 2018
  • But he's been gone a long time, and his entreaties are rebuffed.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2019
  • I’m sorry to say that your entreaties fall on deaf ears.
    — Luke Burns, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2016
  • What’s a critic to do in the face of such a courteous entreaty?
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • To date, the group has resisted entreaties from Hamas to fully enter the war.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • If this entreaty is speaking to you in any way, here are some of the best kitchen torches to consider.
    — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Britons ignored their entreaties to stay in the European Union.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 7 June 2017
  • Gould’s sense is that the entreaties have been well-received and that the bill has a good shot at clearing the Legislature this year.
    — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
  • But as the pandemic races on, the entreaty to them remains the same, still urgent but hopeful: Please, do more.
    — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021
  • There are a criminal number of bad jokes and earnest entreaties.
    — Roxane Gay, Marie Claire, 22 May 2017
  • Many of McAdams’ colleagues were unmoved by such entreaties.
    — Marc A. Thiessen, The Mercury News, 25 July 2019
  • With the gift comes an entreaty: to track down the remaining movements and, if possible, put them again in Otylie’s hands.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Resolved to save Soji, Picard asks Starfleet for a ship, but he's been gone a long time, and his entreaties are rebuffed.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2020
  • Their entreaties have so far largely fallen on deaf ears.
    — Alex Webb | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Greece’s decision came despite entreaties from the U.S. to allow the sanctions to stand.
    — Nektaria Stamouli, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2016
  • But their grins were as wide as their hopes were secure, whereas Isabelle is prey to sudden squalls of tears and craven entreaties.
    — Michelle McNamara, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The preferred entreaties are often Power Nuggets or Mice Tails.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 31 Jan. 2020
  • At the time, Hampton shared texts with the Tribune that detailed a relentless series of entreaties from Kevin Quinn to go out with him.
    — Ray Long, chicagotribune.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • But neither her entreaties nor a judge’s order could sway the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
    — Carol Marbin Miller and Elizabeth Koh, miamiherald, 2 July 2017
  • Yet the essence of Elvis is inclusive, an entreaty to America to strive to be its best possible self.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 21 June 2018
  • In the face of that, Conway’s entreaty to disregard Trump’s mouth and look into Trump’s soul is beyond asinine.
    — Leonard Pitts Jr, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2017
  • The financial entreaties are honed through so-called A/B testing, where a subset of a list is tested to see which message hits the right buttons.
    — Jake Bernstein, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2020
  • But state records show those officials did not act on her entreaties and failed to make Krabbe their top priority.
    — Patricia Callahan, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2018
  • All of these entreaties for decorum are in service of a delusion that is profitable only to those already in power.
    — Drew Magary, GQ, 14 June 2018
  • Even entreaties from the prime minister’s office have failed to sway the regulator.
    — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
  • This one ends with an entreaty not to reveal the murderer’s identity to anyone.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The question is whether the Biden Team will back up its diplomatic entreaties with a tougher American defense posture.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 June 2023
  • Moore never tried to call police that night and rejected his brother's entreaty to get in their car to get away from Scott, the prosecutor said.
    — John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 4 May 2022

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