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
  • Lyons implored the people in the bar to call the police.
    Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 | Mheim@al.com, al, 9 Sep. 2023
  • And, as his memoir's title implores, kick up some dust along the way.
    Lee Habeeb, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • The Heat implored Butler to be patient and play the rest of the season, but Butler’s mind was made up.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • About 10 of them came to Willoughby City Council this week, imploring the city to help.
    James Ewinger, cleveland.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • This issue has been on the table since at least 2016, when Meryl Streep implored the press to even the gender divide.
    Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 11 June 2018
  • 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
  • Ohio State quarterback Will Howard is on fire, imploring the crowd to make more noise.
    Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Walz implored the autoworkers to spread the word about what Democrats have done for working people.
    Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Spider-Man implores the chef to forgive her, and in doing so, earns a free pizza.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
  • D’Antoni implores his players to take the first good shot, emphasis on good.
    Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Oh, and Chris Pratt implores you not to move as the boat drops into a darkened corridor.
    Scott Craven, azcentral, 12 July 2019
  • But in the comments of that announcement, a number of fans implored Milkshake to reconsider the choice.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 6 Feb. 2025

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