"entreaties" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to a request or plea that is made in an earnest, serious, or emotional way. Example sentence: She made repeated entreaties for him to stay, but ultimately he chose to leave.
Then there the two years in high school when the bus driver hammered Dr Hook's Greatest Hits every single afternoon, resisting all entreaties to play something else or put on the radio.
Arsenal's supporters had made their feelings clear after watching attacks fizzle out at Leicester on Sunday, with entreaties to sign a striker.
"Er, no thanks," he said, dodging the man's entreaties.
They may, despite American entreaties, seek to develop a nuclear capacity to match Iran's; a deal to halt nuclear weapons proliferation may lead instead to the proliferation of nuclear-threshold states.
Her entreaties to her party resemble those gym mantras: "Winning is too important", "Be the best we can be", "What matters is what works".In this section Under the bonnet Eyes to the right What will become of them?
ENGLISH is blind to the arguments of the visually challenged and deaf to the entreaties of those with auditory impairment.
His request for combat troops for Afghanistan seems to have been rebuffed, as were his entreaties that Turkey allow Cyprus to join NATO.
"The Barrios family is being exterminated in the face of inaction by the State, which has ignored the [IACHR's] entreaties, decisions, recommendations and orders", the commission said in a statement on January 18th.
We want Russia to reach out to people in Ukraine to have the conversation the Ukrainian government wants to have".But in effect, the ministers set a two-day deadline for Russia to reverse course before European leaders take up the issue at a summit expected to take place in Brussels on March 5th.Nobody held out much hope that Russia would heed either the warnings or entreaties.
So entreaties to pause and consider the engineering marvels running under London and New York may strike the natural audience for these books as perverse.Yet subways have literally shaped both cities.
Far from being gullible and easily manipulated, they are cynical about marketing and less responsive to entreaties to buy.
