How to use implore in a sentence

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• I implore you to seek the advice of running or medical professionals before making any major decisions.2019, Dawn Dais, The Nonrunner's Marathon Guide for Women. From the entry katrillion
• And I have implored HuffPosters—without much success, I must admit—to eat lunch away from their desks.2014, Arianna Huffington, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Happier Life, WH Allen, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry HuffPoster
• He has an imploring look about him, the same look that Roadkill gets.2011, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 168. From the entry suggestively
• East Bay Mud began rationing water and implored homeowners to replace their dying gardens with xeriphytes.2008, Christopher Grampp, From Yard to Garden: The Domestication of America's Home Grounds, →ISBN. From the entry xeriphyte
• Was it a question of imploring the Sun to turn around, and stop going ever more 'winterwards'?2007, John North, Stonehenge, page 530. From the entry winterwards
• James Lawrence, who implored his men: "Don't give up the ship!" (or words to that effect).2004 August, Doug Stewart, “Shore Thing.”, in Smithsonian, volume 34, number 5, page 90. From the entry or words to that effect
• “Oh, Gilbert, not you,” implored Anne, in an et-tu Brute tone.1915, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, Anne of the Island, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, →OCLC. From the entry et tu, Brute
• They seemed to be imploring for rescue.2024, Grace Jung, K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry Into Why We Love Korean Television, Philadelphia, P.A.: Running Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry K-rage
• I implore you to do the same.2023 February 6, Menal Siddiqui, “The End of My Fleabag Era”, in Unpublished Zine. From the entry Fleabag era
• The shadows of the trees stretch in gradual elastications towards evening as if imploring water for their thirsts.2006, Duncan Forbes, Vision Mixer. From the entry elastication
• I touch your beard as a suppliant, embrace your knees, imploring you to have pity on my wretchedness.1963, Philip Vellacott, transl., Medea, Penguin Classics, translation of original by Euripides, page 39. From the entry suppliant
• We suppli­ants implore you on our knees.1928, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, Sophocles’ King Oedipus: A Version of the Modern Stage, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC. From the entry on one's knees
• “Mother!” the girl implored, “don’t wear that nubbly little bonnet.”1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry nubbly
• He would implore her to impose on him insufferable penances.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry soever
• “Let me get you a lunch anyhow,” implored Anne.1908, L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables. From the entry lunch
• I implore her intercession, through the merits of her chastity, and by the glory that she gave to thy power, in dying for thee.2015, Anonymous, Aeterna Press, The Life and Miracles: Saint Philomena, Virgin and Martyr, Aeterna Press. From the entry virgin
• Further, this socialization implores black Memphians to strive to challenge the increasingly complex structural inequalities of race and class in the post–civil rights era.2014 April 15, Zandria F[elice] Robinson, “Post-Soul Blues”, in This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul…. From the entry –
• A leading Oxford University academic has implored “the grammar police” and spelling pedants to be a bit more relaxed about changing standards of written English.2013 May 29, Harry Wallop, “Hay Festival 2013: Oxford professor asks for grammar pedants to relax”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 13 Mar 2018. From the entry grammar police
• Brown) being lifted in a wide jete on the arms and shoulders of a few dancers while the rest of the crowd reached imploring arms up to him.1990 August 24, Effie Mihopoulos, “American Jazz Dance World Congress '90”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry jete
• From one stage door to another went the emissaries of the reptile hide plungers, imploring the help of one after the other of the Paris footlight beauties.1928 July 8, “Lizards and Snakes for Gowns, Gloves and Automobile Cushions; Eight Thousand Java Lizards Trapped in the Island Jungle, and…. From the entry snakephobia
• A distracted mother having answered a half a hundred queries in half an hour, at last implored her bright little eight-year-old to desist for a while.1911 November 5, “Those Fool Questions—and Some Fool Retorts […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry motherkins
• The woman who implored Our Lady to help Joan Sampson in her labour Joan spat upon and set away, and at another woman's childbed she 'contumeliously spoke against the invocators.2014, Susan Brigden, London and the Reformation, →ISBN. From the entry invocator

Meaning of implore

1. verb To beg or plead for (something) earnestly or urgently; to beseech.
2. verb To beg or plead that (someone) earnestly or urgently do something; to beseech, to entreat.
3. verb Often followed by for (a thing) or of (a person): to express an earnest or urgent plea.

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Questions about implore in a sentence

How do you use implore in a sentence?

Implore is used as a verb and noun. For example: “I implore you not to allow prison to rob you of your dream or vision, nor of your dignity or self-worth.”

What is a short sentence with implore?

“I implore you to do the same.”

What does implore mean?

Implore means to beg or plead for (something) earnestly or urgently; to beseech.