How to Use entreaty in a Sentence

entreaty

noun

• Even so, the entreaty from Cohen was too good to pass up.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 14 May 2018
• But he's been gone a long time, and his entreaties are rebuffed.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2019
• What’s a critic to do in the face of such a courteous entreaty?
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• To date, the group has resisted entreaties from Hamas to fully enter the war.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
• If this entreaty is speaking to you in any way, here are some of the best kitchen torches to consider.
  — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit, 28 Sep. 2022
• Britons ignored their entreaties to stay in the European Union.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 7 June 2017
• Gould’s sense is that the entreaties have been well-received and that the bill has a good shot at clearing the Legislature this year.
  — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• But as the pandemic races on, the entreaty to them remains the same, still urgent but hopeful: Please, do more.
  — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021
• Many of McAdams’ colleagues were unmoved by such entreaties.
  — Marc A. Thiessen, The Mercury News, 25 July 2019
• With the gift comes an entreaty: to track down the remaining movements and, if possible, put them again in Otylie’s hands.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
• Resolved to save Soji, Picard asks Starfleet for a ship, but he's been gone a long time, and his entreaties are rebuffed.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2020
• Their entreaties have so far largely fallen on deaf ears.
  — Alex Webb | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
• But their grins were as wide as their hopes were secure, whereas Isabelle is prey to sudden squalls of tears and craven entreaties.
  — Michelle McNamara, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2018
• The preferred entreaties are often Power Nuggets or Mice Tails.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 31 Jan. 2020
• At the time, Hampton shared texts with the Tribune that detailed a relentless series of entreaties from Kevin Quinn to go out with him.
  — Ray Long, chicagotribune.com, 29 Nov. 2019
• But neither her entreaties nor a judge’s order could sway the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
  — Carol Marbin Miller and Elizabeth Koh, miamiherald, 2 July 2017
• Yet the essence of Elvis is inclusive, an entreaty to America to strive to be its best possible self.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 21 June 2018
• The financial entreaties are honed through so-called A/B testing, where a subset of a list is tested to see which message hits the right buttons.
  — Jake Bernstein, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2020
• But state records show those officials did not act on her entreaties and failed to make Krabbe their top priority.
  — Patricia Callahan, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2018
• All of these entreaties for decorum are in service of a delusion that is profitable only to those already in power.
  — Drew Magary, GQ, 14 June 2018
• Even entreaties from the prime minister’s office have failed to sway the regulator.
  — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
• This one ends with an entreaty not to reveal the murderer’s identity to anyone.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 25 Oct. 2022
• The question is whether the Biden Team will back up its diplomatic entreaties with a tougher American defense posture.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 June 2023
• Moore never tried to call police that night and rejected his brother's entreaty to get in their car to get away from Scott, the prosecutor said.
  — John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 4 May 2022
• The company's impeachment ad, which ran last week, wasn't the blunt-force entreaty of most political ads.
  — oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2019
• What was funny, kind of, was his entreaty to people to stay home whenever possible.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2020
• German and French entreaties could neither salvage the nuclear deal with Iran nor dissuade Trump from pulling out of the Paris climate accords.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 June 2018
• That is why Comey kept deflecting Trump’s entreaties that Comey tell the public Trump was not suspected of wrongdoing.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 15 Feb. 2018
• According to Pence’s accounts, Trump never stopped coming at him with entreaties to help overturn the election.
  — T.a. Frank, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
• Liu was 11 when most of the schools were shuttered in China, a result of Mao Zedong’s entreaty to children to throw off the bonds of oppression via education.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 14 July 2017

Last Updated: 28 May 2024