How to Use implore in a Sentence

implore

verb
  • Don't go. I implore you.
  • There should be no need to implore fans to show up on time, let alone early.
    Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Their coach implored his team that the excuses of the past month — so many of which were valid — needed to end.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • For years, Saban has implored fans to stay in their seats and support their team.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 9 Sep. 2023
  • As a ring girl in black hot pants parades the Round Three card to the crowd, Valenzuela implores Manuel to stop lunging in.
    Ben Wyatt, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Instead of shutting the doors and windows, Mollie implores Ernest to fall silent and pray through the storm.
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2023
  • In a follow-up call from the Garden, around 12:30 a.m, Tony listened to his mom implore him to get home.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 Oct. 2021
  • But Picker Neiss’s husband implored over the phone: Make this work.
    Jesús Rodríguez, Washington Post, 11 June 2023
  • And my first instinct as a father was to implore them, don’t run the story or at least be vague.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2022
  • She's taken to Twitter to implore people to roll up their sleeves.
    Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 26 July 2021
  • Plenty of coaches implore their players to be, in the words of Ted Lasso, a goldfish.
    Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Advocates on both sides in recent days have been imploring Ohioans to turn out at the polls.
    Haley Bemiller, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Hunt went on to implore those present to reflect on the challenges MLK faced during his lifetime.
    Beth Mlady, cleveland, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Harrison Taggart implored his teammates to stay out on the field and look around.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
  • After being implored by Moctar to come up close, the crowd even ditched their seats and rushed to the very front of the stage area during the performance.
    Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
  • In the first few days after the fires, stars including Jason Momoa and Mia Tyler implored tourists to stay away.
    Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Students had also implored trustees to to delay the vote until November to give them more time to learn about the plan.
    Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Valvano implored the audience to laugh, think and cry each day.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 7 July 2023
  • Before the show, Gavin had addressed the audience, imploring them to laugh, Neely said.
    Indianapolis Star, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
  • Armed with those stories, War Child returns to the U.S. to implore anyone anyone with power to help raise funds.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The Pope on Saturday will be at the shrine of Fatima, where he's expected to implore peace for Ukraine.
    Ines De La Cuetara, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The ad implored other women who work as escorts to call Overstreet.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN, 21 July 2023
  • This has led political leaders to implore the public to drink and use more of the product.
    NBC News, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Sloan’s wife, Marilyn Sloan, addressed Lucas in court and implored him to mend his ways.
    oregonlive, 12 July 2023
  • Diplomats implored them to retrieve their passports and pets.
    Declan Walsh, New York Times, 5 May 2023
  • The home fans appreciate the effort and Newman is imploring them to make noise.
    Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Carroll did not want to, the lawsuit says, and implored Birnbach never to disclose what had happened.
    Benjamin Weiser, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The most iconic muses in art history implore us to ask more questions.
    Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2022
  • The couple wants to creative understand that there’s more to success than just meeting the right people, the couple implores.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 20 July 2023
  • The fact that Utah coaches in the booth did not see enough evidence to implore Whittingham to challenge the play has been a point of conversation in the days after the game.
    Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Sep. 2022

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