How to Use pleading in a Sentence

pleading

noun

• I'm tired of their begging and pleading.
• Despite our pleadings to be allowed to leave, they kept us there for several more hours.
• His low voice, his pleading, wouldn’t have reached me from the front door.
  — Mariana Enriquez, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• Less than a week ago, Hartman was in court pleading to go home.
  — CBS News, 31 Jan. 2018
• That’s when the oohing and aahing quickly turns to panic and pleading.
  — Cary Darling, kansascity.com, 16 June 2017
• That's when the oohing-and-aahing quickly turns to panic and pleading.
  — Cary Darling, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2017
• That’s when the oohing-and-aahing quickly turns to panic and pleading.
  — Cary Darling, idahostatesman, 15 June 2017
• Certainly, posting a pleading doesn't seem to me to be out of bounds.
  — Christina Dugan Ramirez, Fox News, 6 Feb. 2025
• The court should wait until the close of pleadings and the legal question can be briefed.
  — Mark Berman, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2018
• Sorokin has called on the defense team to file all legal pleadings by Wednesday.
  — Milton J. Valencia, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• The following facts are derived from the pleadings.
  — Matthew L. Roberts, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• Friends and teammates had also made a video pleading for more machinery.
  — Anabella González, CNN Money, 29 June 2026
• Despite Lewis’s pleading, the worker on the other end of the line said the clinic wouldn’t do it.
  — Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2021
• Neither my pleading nor Brown’s death could stir the government to action.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2023
• That brief pleading and the request for a change of venue came among a host of motions filed by Mosby’s defense.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2023
• Court pleadings show that Bredow agreed months ago to the vaccinations.
  — John Wisely, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2017
• Her work defies the concept of cheerleading, or of special pleading.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Apr. 2018
• His interest in deescalation seemed earnest and pleading.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
• His attorneys have said in legal pleadings that is incorrect.
  — Nolan Clay, Oklahoman, 27 Feb. 2026
• The pieces on display for the next five months are an answer to the pleadings of die-hard fans who, for years, have wanted to see the best-of-the-best.
  — Nathan Brown, Indianapolis Star, 20 Nov. 2019
• The fog, the crickets, the pleading eyes, the bridge—absolute perfection.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 10 May 2017
• In each case, the Left dismisses these complaints as special pleading or whining.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 4 Dec. 2019
• Freedom of speech and equal justice under the law are not rare favors that require our pleading and begging on bended knee.
  — WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
• Zunino spread his hands in a pleading motion, and Santana did the same while shaking his head in disbelief.
  — Mike Berardino, Twin Cities, 14 June 2017
• That pleading was roundly denied by the judge; last summer, the case proceeded to discovery.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2025
• Throughout the entire film, she's been a voice offscreen — pleading, crying, nagging, and screaming.
  — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Mar. 2026
• Some – asking politely, saying please and thank you each time – work better than others, such as nagging or pleading.
  — Angela J. Narayan, The Conversation, 9 June 2026
• Within the past month, lawyers for Gallagher and the diocese have outlined their positions in pleadings.
  — Marc Freeman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 June 2018
• Charlotte could read the desperate pleading in Marlene’s eyes, fixed on her now, from behind the dark lenses.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• But my point is that, right up front, these messages telegraph insecurity, pleading, chagrin.
  — Michelle Cottle, Mercury News, 9 July 2026