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
  • During the game, Schwartz implored the Chiefs to run the ball up the middle.
    — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Jan. 2018
  • The more he’s implored them to clean up their play, the uglier things have turned on the court.
    — Mitch Sherman, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The saga has led to many A’s fans imploring Fisher to sell the team.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • And then, in September 1992, implored us to enter the era of it.
    — Stephen Mooallem, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Castagne's father had flown in from France to implore the judge for a prison sentence for his son's killer.
    — Ken Daley, NOLA.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • The Wolves coaching staff opened the season by imploring him to score.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 1 May 2025
  • In the second half, the crowd was chanting Leonard’s name, imploring Dunphy to put him back in the game.
    — Marc Narducci, Philly.com, 25 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Harry claimed Charles implored the brothers to make up.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 26 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Take care of yourself because Lorde, who died much too young, implored us to.
    — Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 19 Feb. 2018
  • When Tonali smothered Bruno Fernandes deep in the opposition half, Tindall applauded and then implored him to do more of the same with rolling hand gestures.
    — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025

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