Sentence examples for plead for work from inspiring English sources
But he kept returning to plead for work and eventually latched on to the bottom rung, far below the agency's five agents.
He was saved from this fate when George Gale, editor of the Spectator, responded to a letter pleading for work with an invitation to become the youngest literary editor in the magazine's history.
IN his vintage poem "Two Tramps in Mud Time," Robert Frost has his flinty New England farmer wrestle with a reluctance to turn over his wood chopping to two drifters silently pleading for work.
Destitute, homeless, and suffering from asthma and heart disease, Mandelshtam persisted in trying to rehabilitate himself, making rounds of the writers' apartments and Writers' Union of the U.S.S.R. offices, reciting his "Ode," and pleading for work and a return to a normal life.
Refinery workers plead for jobs dispensing fuel, offering to work for no pay.
Rose tried to make eye contact with the nurses, and shake her head and silently plead for help, but it didn't work.
When a possible boss draws a caricature and sees Tiny Tim pleading for work, the odds are not good.
I will work unceasingly to obtain for you the joys of Heaven, and I know you will plead for me.
They plead for admission.
All plead for their lives.
