How to Use entreat in a Sentence

entreat

verb

• I entreat you to help me.
• But when Le Doussal entreated Takeuchi to plot the data again, the scientists saw the first glimpse of the left and right tails.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2014
• Kahn entreats the reader on the first page of her biography.
  — Vogue, 6 Nov. 2019
• For years, a wide spectrum of groups in the U.S. lectured, cajoled and entreated China to go green.
  — Andrew Browne, WSJ, 6 June 2017
• But whilst thus entreating him to save her and her family, the slave-driver, who had first bought her, came running in pursuit of her with a raw hide in his hand.
  — Solomon Jones, Philly.com, 19 June 2018
• Those things are forbidden, as entreating the angels with prayer.
  — Jake Cline, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
• Before long, rival warlords would entreat the warrior monks to help in their skirmishes.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 7 June 2023
• Gregarious guides may entreat visitors to speak from the podium used by Dr. King.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2018
• The 7,650-foot-tall peak, known for its bizarrely thin, silvery lava, is a place of pilgrimage for the pastoralist Maasai, who travel there to entreat their god Engai for rain, cattle, and children.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 10 Oct. 2016
• The 7,650-foot-tall peak, known for its bizarrely thin, silvery lava, is a place of pilgrimage for the pastoralist Maasai, who travel there to entreat their god Engai for rain, cattle, and children.
  — Robert Clark, National Geographic, 10 Oct. 2016
• At climate rallies, Granett entreats strangers to keep it terrestrial.
  — Alex Davies, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
• In the developing movie (based on the 2019 sequel to Ahern's original work) Holly's sister Ciara entreats her to share her touching story with the world on a podcast.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 13 Feb. 2020
• Or Tinkerbell, a sassy alpha sprite who in a burst of feminist solidarity entreats her sisters to a call for girl power?
  — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2020
• In her comments, Arnold entreated industry leaders to hire outside their usual crew.
  — Hannah Abraham, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
• Sarastro’s Masonic minions gather around a conference table in generic gray suits, Tamino heads off in pursuit of virtue wearing a white shirt and black pants, and Pamina does a lot of entreating in a frumpy white dress.
  — Vulture, 23 May 2023
• On top of his other concerns, his father back in Syria was entreating al-Hajj to send money for doctor’s visits and for farming supplies to help feed their family, even pushing him to ask the sponsors for the funds.
  — Jodi Kantor, Orange County Register, 26 Mar. 2017
• Kimmel entreated viewers to vote Trump out of office in November, but also went further, attempting to grapple with the larger issues of racial injustice at play.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 30 May 2020
• But her stationery story began in 2009, when a friend entreated Menocal to create invitations for her Palm Beach, Florida, wedding.
  — Christine Whitney, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2017
• Trump entreated black voters at numerous whistle stops.
  — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 9 Aug. 2019
• Other local families arrive, also entreating Stockton to save them.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024