Sentence examples for your entreaty from inspiring English sources

You may discuss the transplant with him using all your powers of persuasion — take acting lessons, hire musicians to accompany your entreaty — but the decision must be his.

Your entreaty re: the cessation of human suffering results in a member of the medical establishment offering you two aspirin; your plea for clemency causes a neighbor to give you a crate of clementines — it's like having a conversation with your mother.

By all means, I said, make your entreaties to Olympus.

I'm sorry to say that your entreaties fall on deaf ears.

First, he looks surprisingly life-like in this outfit and, second, he would be completely deaf to your entreaties.

If he yielded to your entreaties, if he stopped before the operation was complete, all the pain up to that point would have been useless".

IF you've long put off your kids' entreaties to take them on a Disney vacation because of an aversion to long lines, high prices and throngs of mouse-eared fans, you may soon be running out of excuses.

Despite entreaties, your correspondent's son is prepared to tear out most of his stickers to get hold of Lionel Messi.

So you should have advised the applicant that she immediately send such an entreaty directly to your boss.

And there's something in that "please": it's both the decorous mannerism of a cookbook writer loath to impose on your culinary explorations and the entreaty of a master chef who doesn't want you to mess up the dishes that she's perfected.

It was suggested to the Guardian that opponents of offshore processing needed to allow the government a "face-saving" option to close the camps while still ostensibly retaining its policy, heeding the advice of Sun Tzu who counselled leaving opponents a way to escape, usually quoted as an entreaty to "build your opponents a golden bridge to retreat across".