How to Use entreat in a Sentence

entreat

verb
  • I entreat you to help me.
  • This is a question mark of a movie, entreating us to trust in the spirit of the moment.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Those things are forbidden, as entreating the angels with prayer.
    — Jake Cline, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Within the scene, a standing figure entreats a seated woman, who is Black and wears a dress and head wrap.
    — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Before long, rival warlords would entreat the warrior monks to help in their skirmishes.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 7 June 2023
  • Felder entreats us to reject both optimism and cynicism.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
  • At climate rallies, Granett entreats strangers to keep it terrestrial.
    — Alex Davies, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Franz Kafka took pains to set many of his old works alight and entreated his friend Max Brod to scorch the rest after his death.
    — Literary Hub, 7 May 2025
  • But whilst thus entreating him to save her and her family, the slave-driver, who had first bought her, came running in pursuit of her with a raw hide in his hand.
    — Solomon Jones, Philly.com, 19 June 2018
  • At school, teachers entreat students to put their phones away, mostly unsuccessfully.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2025
  • In her comments, Arnold entreated industry leaders to hire outside their usual crew.
    — Hannah Abraham, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
  • But when Le Doussal entreated Takeuchi to plot the data again, the scientists saw the first glimpse of the left and right tails.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2014
  • Serena, unsure what to do in the aftermath of shooting Ezra, entreated June to raise Noah for her.
    — Abigail Lee, Variety, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Or Tinkerbell, a sassy alpha sprite who in a burst of feminist solidarity entreats her sisters to a call for girl power?
    — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Huppert entreats her to help locate this potentially deadly ancient tome, and assist in furnishing an all-out vampire gala in the process (replete, again, with dazzling looks).
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Other local families arrive, also entreating Stockton to save them.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2017
  • In the aftermath of tragedy, Sam is entreated by his friend Fragile (Lea Seydoux) to reconnect with Australia.
    — Richard Newby, Time, 6 Dec. 2025
  • In his speech, Biden to his credit did entreat Republicans to set aside differences and pass essential legislation on a variety of issues.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Kimmel entreated viewers to vote Trump out of office in November, but also went further, attempting to grapple with the larger issues of racial injustice at play.
    — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 30 May 2020
  • During a wintry white-out, Kris drives to her home to hopefully entreat Billy to star in the remake Kris is developing, which is meant to wipe the slate clean of the many bad sequels and reboots.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
  • Baldwin makes clear that both Hella and David are aware of this loss of affection—that Hella still loves David and entreats him to talk to her and to be honest about the feelings that have come between them.
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • And always take a moment to reflect and double-check before entreating any personal information and especially financial details.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • On top of his other concerns, his father back in Syria was entreating al-Hajj to send money for doctor’s visits and for farming supplies to help feed their family, even pushing him to ask the sponsors for the funds.
    — Jodi Kantor, Orange County Register, 26 Mar. 2017
  • Sarastro’s Masonic minions gather around a conference table in generic gray suits, Tamino heads off in pursuit of virtue wearing a white shirt and black pants, and Pamina does a lot of entreating in a frumpy white dress.
    — Vulture, 23 May 2023
  • After receiving a troubling diagnosis and failing to navigate his company’s byzantine insurance plans, Winston entreats his mega-rich boss for help, only to be cruelly rebuffed.
    — Michael Nordine, Variety, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The 7,650-foot-tall peak, known for its bizarrely thin, silvery lava, is a place of pilgrimage for the pastoralist Maasai, who travel there to entreat their god Engai for rain, cattle, and children.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 10 Oct. 2016
  • But her stationery story began in 2009, when a friend entreated Menocal to create invitations for her Palm Beach, Florida, wedding.
    — Christine Whitney, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2017
  • In the first film, Evan Rachel Wood played Sally’s eldest daughter, but the actress revealed in 2025 that, despite entreating the production to hire her, she was not asked to return for the sequel.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Maduro became president of Venezuela in 2013, after his predecessor, Hugo Chávez, entreated his supporters to vote Maduro into office after his death.
    — Essence, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The agency is also entreating the diagnostics industry to develop additional kinds of H5N1 tests, to broaden the nation’s portfolio of viral detection capabilities.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 2 July 2024

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