pleas

Example Sentences

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Despite pleas from authorities not to share the video, it went viral on social media.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

On Monday morning, Iran and Israel both announced they would refrain from attacking each other, perhaps in response to more pleas from Trump by phone and social media.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2026

Telephone poles covered in fundraising pleas for families whose breadwinners either rotted in faraway detention center or were sent back to their home countries.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

"This is a substantial fall from grace for you," the judge said, adding his sentencing decision took into account the guilty pleas from all three and their individual family circumstances.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Such pleas, inevitably, were ignored, and members of Congress would gather in wood-paneled committee rooms and spend hours examining in minute detail the Osage’s expenditures, as if the country’s security were at stake.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann