entreaty

How To Use entreaty In A Sentence

• I clasped my hands in entreaty, and Uncle Geoff had such a funny look in his eyes that I quite stared at him. The Boys and I: A Child's Story for Children
• It was a woman's voice: quiet, controlled, underlaid with an odd note of entreaty.
• She wasn't in tears; she was if anything brusque, her tone between command and entreaty. A WORM OF DOUBT
• The lips of the Prior were moving in a kind of agonised entreaty, and his eyes rolled round. The King's Achievement
• And beneath the vituperation was the telltale entreaty to Tanenhaus that he should exercise more judgment in his selection process if anyone wanted to take the Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits
• The voice of the stranger was raised as though in anger or altercation, while that of the Governor was pitched lower, in tones that seemed to convey the idea of expostulation, entreaty, and apology. A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas
• Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication?
• Early last year I made an entreaty for the digitization of several great LPs, mostly from the 80s, that still hadn't made it to CD for whatever reason.
• an entreaty to stop the fighting
• What had begun as a command, even a threat, ended up quite differently, came as close as John could get to entreaty. HERE BE DRAGONS