How to Use implore in a Sentence

implore

verb
  • Don't go. I implore you.
  • Men who implored the country to unite.
    Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
  • His friends implored him to be careful.
    Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 29 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Fodor’s has a list of places that tourists have been implored to avoid, but a lot of tourists can’t read.
    Joe Queenan, WSJ, 31 May 2018
  • Maeve implores Akane to come with them, but the geisha resists.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 20 May 2018
  • And, as his memoir's title implores, kick up some dust along the way.
    Lee Habeeb, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • There were a couple times our guards were imploring him to get big and demand the ball.
    Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 8 Feb. 2020
  • After a few minutes, a group of friends implored Ovechkin to join them.
    Adam Candee, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2018
  • For years, Saban has implored fans to stay in their seats and support their team.
    Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Take care of yourself because Lorde, who died much too young, implored us to.
    Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 19 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Summitt implored her to take a public speaking course.
    Rebecca Shore Winn, Southern Living, 18 Feb. 2026
  • This film implores us to take action with a message that is timeless and timely.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • The ads implore viewers to call the lawmakers and thank them for their support.
    Nicholas Florko, STAT, 7 Jan. 2020
  • The saga has led to many A’s fans imploring Fisher to sell the team.
    Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Castagne's father had flown in from France to implore the judge for a prison sentence for his son's killer.
    Ken Daley, NOLA.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The Wolves coaching staff opened the season by imploring him to score.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 1 May 2025
  • She's taken to Twitter to implore people to roll up their sleeves.
    Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 26 July 2021
  • During the game, Schwartz implored the Chiefs to run the ball up the middle.
    Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Jan. 2018
  • His teammates and coaches have implored him to be aggressive, not to scale back too much.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2026
  • But then along came the sweet scene in which Eddie implored the youngster never to change.
    Charlie Mason, TVLine, 16 July 2025
  • There were times during the season that Klee had to implore some of his players to shoot more.
    Dean Spiros, Twin Cities, 12 June 2024
  • With his stick stuck in his pads, Swayman took off his mask and implored Vasilevskiy to do the same.
    Fluto Shinzawa, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
  • One of the victim's parents implored lawmakers to ban such weapons.
    Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Colum implores Ellen to marry and be the eyes and ears of Castle Grant.
    Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • One scene finds him in conversation with his legal team, imploring them to up their game.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Dungan implores patients not to use social media as a go-to resource.
    Cari Shane, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Spider-Man implores the chef to forgive her, and in doing so, earns a free pizza.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025

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