How to Use implore in a Sentence

implore

verb
  • Don't go. I implore you.
  • Jim Wahlberg implored the crowd as Trump stood on the stage with him.
    Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • There were a couple times our guards were imploring him to get big and demand the ball.
    Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 8 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • The ads implore viewers to call the lawmakers and thank them for their support.
    Nicholas Florko, STAT, 7 Jan. 2020
  • In the weeks leading up to the 2020 election, Meghan Markle has been using her platform to implore her fans to vote.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 24 Sep. 2020
  • She's taken to Twitter to implore people to roll up their sleeves.
    Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 26 July 2021
  • Hirsh-Naftali implored Netanyahu and Hamas leadership to reach a deal to stop the bloodshed and free the hostages.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Scott has implored the Australian crowd not to forget who the home team is this week, even with Tiger Woods as the first playing captain in 25 years.
    Doug Ferguson, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Harrison Taggart implored his teammates to stay out on the field and look around.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Even still, Chris, Zach, and Tori implored Amy to stay positive and keep searching.
    Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 1 Apr. 2020
  • For weeks, officials implored clerics to shut down crowded Shiite shrines to halt the spread of the virus.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • During their meeting, Biden again implored Scholz to help.
    Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Valvano implored the audience to laugh, think and cry each day.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 7 July 2023
  • Shanahan expects more players than usual to request intravenous fluids before kickoff but that the team still is imploring players to hydrate ahead of time.
    Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Cooper implored residents in western North Carolina to avoid travel, both for their own safety and to keep roads clear for emergency vehicles.
    CBS News, 30 Sep. 2024

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