Entreaties in a sentence

Despite entreaties by the journalists who kept pestering him with questions, he snubbed them and stepped into one of the waiting cars in his convoy and drove off.

Freddie continues to hear from her father, but she ignores his entreaties.

In ceremonies, adherents smoke and drink in front of his wooden figure in the hopes he will hear their entreaties.

Inside the darkened vestibule, a man greeted her, and she resisted his entreaties to bring her farther inside and stepped out into the courtyard.

N. Secretary-General António Guterres warned Sunday that the Middle East is “on the verge of the abyss” and repeated his entreaties for Hamas to release hostages and for Israel to allow humanitarian aid and workers into besieged Gaza.

These entreaties can be eliminated from one’s vocabulary but only through hypnosis — and perhaps with the assistance of certain essential oils.

A handful of holdouts remain, including state Sen. Mike McDonnell of Omaha, who switched his party registration from Democratic to Republican earlier this year but has so far resisted entreaties to support a winner-take-all electoral system.

However, the entreaties by the residents failed as the angry youths set the house ablaze.

However, two years of entreaties have yielded little appreciable benefit to Moore-Gilbert.

She kept avoiding him but had to yield to his entreaties when he threatened to commit suicide.

The entreaties went on: Facebook, CVS, American Express, Netflix.

The monastic vow of silence is solemn and unforgiving; we linger in a moment of silence to commemorate grim events; we punish each other for transgressions by responding to earnest entreaties with stone-faced silence.

The president repeatedly tried to interject himself in the appointment process, but his entreaties to pick Mr. Collins were ignored, according to Republicans familiar with the outreach.

Whether his entreaties were accepted is a matter that can’t be ascertained now but since then, the Irigwe community has been battling with attacks never seen in its history.

The more-sober and open-minded of those entreaties, those that were not patently dog-whistling, suggested an inquiry was necessary to examine what strategies are in place, or could be utilised, to cater for immigration growth.

But when all entreaties to make him change his mind failed, you decided to leave him and go into the community to find out what happened.

Did France not have juicy oil deals and fields in Iraq when America ignored her entreaties and hammered Saddam Hussein?

Indeed, it will be recalled that Ramaphosa’s entreaties to serve as a mediator in the Kenyan post-election violence of 2007-2008 was snubbed by then President Mwai Kibaki’s administration.

In one telling episode, Sanders rebuffed entreaties from multiple Democrats in California who asked him to consider holding a get-out-the-vote rally in the state before its June 5 primary.

In remarks released while Rouhani was still talking, National Security Adviser John Bolton doubled down on the decision to withdraw from the deal, echoing his President's strong language and using blunt language to dismiss any entreaties from Tehran.