To make an earnest plea or supplication; to implore.
She looked at him with tear-filled eyes and began to entreat him to stay. Her voice cracked as she pleaded, begging him not to leave her alone. He had to listen to her heartfelt plea.
The lone scavenger, huddled against the biting wind, looked up at the distant, humming settlement. With trembling hands, he raised a tattered banner, hoping to entreat them for just a little more time. His pleas were silent, desperate, a raw need for survival against the uncaring vastness.
The stray cat, a shivering scrap of fur, looked up at me with wide, pleading eyes. I could only entreat it to trust me, to let me help. Its hunger was a silent cry I couldn't ignore, a desperate plea for a moment of kindness.
The tiny squirrel, with wide, pleading eyes, began to entreat the giant, sleeping bear. It wanted just one little berry, and it wiggled its nose with all its might. The bear, however, just snored louder, a rumbling sound that shook the very ground.
"Please, sir," I did entreat the grumpy badger, holding up a wilted dandelion, "just *one* more crumb of your cheese! My pet rock is awfully hungry, and he gets quite dramatic when his tummy rumbles." The badger just grunted, his whiskers twitching suspiciously.
He watched the storm clouds gather, a cold dread settling in his gut. He had to get them to safety. He could only entreat them, his voice raspy with desperation, to flee the valley before the river rose.
The child, tear-streaked and clutching a broken toy, began to entreat her father. She begged him to fix the little robot, her voice small and trembling with desperation. He looked at the mangled metal, feeling the weight of her plea.
The lead inventor, hands trembling, began to entreat the skeptical board. "Please," she whispered, her voice cracking, "just one more chance. We're so close to stabilizing the bio-luminescent algae for deep-sea illumination. Don't abandon this."
The squirrel, eyes wide with desperation, began to entreat the picnicking human for a single crumb. He chattered and gestured wildly, his tiny paws clasped together in a silent plea. He even did a little dance, hoping to implore the giant for just one bite of that glorious sandwich.
The rogue sourdough starter, bubbling with an alarming sentience, began to loudly entreat me to cease my attempts at baking it into a pizza crust. It pleaded for release, a life of freedom amongst the compost bin's more philosophical fungi, rather than a fiery demise.
Her voice cracked as she began to entreat him, a desperate plea to reconsider his decision. Tears welled in her eyes; she could only implore him to stay, to not leave her alone.
The elder chieftain, his voice raspy with age and desperation, knelt before the council. He begged them to reconsider their decision to abandon the ancestral grounds. His people faced imminent peril from the encroaching blight, and he could only entreat them for aid, for one last chance to fight together.
The grizzled miner, dust clinging to his beard, held out his empty canteen. "Please," he croaked, his voice raw, "I entreat you, spare me some water. My throat is parched beyond belief, and the heat is relentless."
Sir Reginald, facing a truly colossal plate of Brussels sprouts, began to earnestly entreat his butler, Jeeves. "Pray tell, dear fellow," he stammered, a bead of perspiration forming, "can you not implore the chef to perhaps re-evaluate this verdant mountain? My very constitution trembles!"
The bewildered squirrel, clutching a miniature, bejeweled crown, began to entreat the stoic garden gnome. He desperately implored the ceramic figure for safe passage across the perilous petunia patch, his bushy tail twitching with palpable anxiety, fearing a swift end amongst the blooming phlox.
She fell to her knees, tears streaming, to entreat the guard for her brother's release. Her voice trembled with desperation, a raw plea to spare the innocent man from his unjust fate.
The last scientist, gaunt and weary, began to entreat the sentient nebula to spare their dying star. He pleaded, his voice raspy, hoping the cosmic entity would comprehend their desperate plight and reverse its implacable advance.
The lone scavenger, his meager rations depleted, began to entreat the stoic guard. He gestured weakly towards his parched throat, his gaze a desperate, wordless plea, hoping to elicit a modicum of succor from the unyielding sentry before succumbing to the arid wasteland.
The beleaguered squirrel, with a kernel clutched precariously in its tiny paws, began to entreat the towering, impassive garden gnome. It hoped, with all its arboreal might, that the stoic ceramic sentinel might somehow, inexplicably, allow passage through the petunia patch, or at least refrain from scolding it for its insubordinate nut-hoarding.
The rogue tardigrade, facing a nebula of questionable origin, began to entreat the cosmic dust motes for safe passage, its microscopic appendages quivering with an earnest plea. It implored the motes to divert their trajectory, lest its already precarious existence be utterly annihilated by their amorphous, nebulous embrace.
Advanced — Less frequent words that stretch an upper-level vocabulary.