How to Use entreaty in a Sentence

entreaty

noun
  • The belief is that users do not want to slog through a series of back-and-forth entreaties.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • What’s a critic to do in the face of such a courteous entreaty?
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • There are a criminal number of bad jokes and earnest entreaties.
    — Roxane Gay, Marie Claire, 22 May 2017
  • 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
  • These entreaties, if they were ever heard by Cox and Kyoko, were ignored.
    — Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025
  • That request may only be an opening entreaty, the people say.
    — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2024
  • My husband ignores my entreaties.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • My husband ignores my entreaties.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The entreaty continued from there.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Moscow is, so far, rebuffing its peace entreaties over Ukraine.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 21 Jan. 2026
  • To date, the group has resisted entreaties from Hamas to fully enter the war.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Despite these entreaties, Zyyo covered the mural with sheetrock.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 15 Aug. 2025
  • This isn’t all an entreaty for Congress and local leaders to do nothing.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2025
  • This isn’t all an entreaty for Congress and local leaders to do nothing.
    — New York Daily News, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025
  • When his entreaties for a post were rebuffed, Guiteau shot the president.
    — Mo Rocca, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Britons ignored their entreaties to stay in the European Union.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 7 June 2017
  • This one ends with an entreaty not to reveal the murderer’s identity to anyone.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 25 Oct. 2022
  • But top Democrats appear to be rejecting Thune’s entreaty.
    — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
  • After a while, their entreaties quieted.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Otherwise, do your best to ignore their entreaties and build your life with your husband based on your plans, not their projections.
    — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 23 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Even the Pentagon’s entreaties on behalf of Ukraine failed to convince him.
    — Ian Bremmer, Foreign Affairs, 13 May 2025
  • Other Democrats have been more cautious in their approach to similar entreaties.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Lovelorn, Vacher shot himself twice in the head after attempting to kill the woman who turned down his entreaties.
    — Sean Neumann, People.com, 18 May 2025
  • Ellison has been trying for months to buy all of WBD, but his entreaties have been rebuffed.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 12 Jan. 2026
  • 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

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