Imploring Sentence Examples

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  • She gave him an imploring, frightened look.

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  • Her eyes were large and imploring as she was wheeled down the hall to a room in the pediatric ward.

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  • His tortured gaze came back to her, imploring her to help.

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  • Tammy shrugged her tiny shoulders, the large blue eyes imploring her not to pry.

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  • She turned an imploring gaze on Justin.

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  • No one shall hear a word from me," said Rostov in an imploring voice, "but I can't apologize, by God I can't, do what you will!

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  • Natasha glanced with frightened imploring eyes at Prince Andrew and at her mother and went out.

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  • Her irritability had suddenly quite vanished, and her anxious, imploring eyes were fixed on him with greedy expectation.

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  • He smiled and thanked her and when she left, he turned an imploring gaze back to Carmen.

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  • On the day of his capture Monmouth wrote to James in terms of the most unmanly contrition, ascribing his wrong-doings to the action of others, and imploring an interview.

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  • Two painful interviews followed with the wife for whom he bore no love, and who for him could feel no respect; another imploring letter was sent to the king, and abject protestations and beseechings.

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  • Totally devoid of dignity and heroism, he ended by surrendering and imploring mercy from the barbarian victor.

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  • Yes, my opinion, and only my opinion, added Prince Bolkonski, turning to Prince Vasili and answering his imploring look.

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  • Natalie stood at the end of the hall, half hidden behind the wall, her eyes large and imploring.

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  • He therefore addressed an eloquent and imploring letter to the earl, pointing out the dangers of his position and urging upon him what he judged to be the only safe course of action, to seek and secure the favour of the queen alone; above all things dissuading him from the appearance of military popularity.

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  • He wrote 3 to the Lords excusing his absence, requesting them to appoint a convenient time for his defence and cross-examination of witnesses, and imploring them not to allow their minds to be prejudiced against him, at the same time declaring that he would not " trick up an innocency with cavillations, but plainly and ingenuously declare what he knew or remembered."

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  • Even after the first French defeats the chivalrous king, in spite of the advice of his more prudent councillors, wished to go to the rescue, and asked Thiers, the French representative who was imploring him for help, if with 10o,000 Italian troops France could be saved, but Thiers could give no such undertaking and Italy remained neutral.

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  • She let the sentence hang, her eyes imploring Carmen.

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  • At the same time his mother-in-law, Prince Vasili's wife, sent to him imploring him to come if only for a few minutes to discuss a most important matter.

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