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How to use plead in a sentence

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Foster was to plead his innocence and Carlyle has indicated that the club would appeal if he is banned.
A French television station breaks off from normal programmes to let its ousted boss tearfully plead for his job back.
Her decision to plead guilty meant she had to receive a mandatory life sentence.
I also plead guilty to egging Val on to write about his air force experiences.
At that time, he is expected to plead guilty to one felony count of conspiracy.
Now the choice is go to trial on a felony assault charge and hope for an acquittal or plead guilty to a misdemeanor.
There can be no trial at all unless the accused is fit both to plead and to stand trial.
The couple went to court in October to plead poverty and beg for financial mercy.
In our universities, students justifiably plead poverty and the recommendations of the Cubie inquiry have been completely ignored.
But the various cities and counties have continued to plead poverty in the hope of receiving aid from central government.
With the case approached that way, he submits that it is not necessary to plead the evidential estoppel.
All the members of the family plead with her to give the marriage a last chance but she will have none of it.
How her beauty was known to all mankind and how knights and noblemen would plead King Julius for his daughter's hand.
How can one plead ignorance in the presence of this massive and continuous universal call?
He is forced to plead for the return of a man he conspired against, denigrated and expelled.
They continually plead poverty, yet when it comes to dishing out bonuses, they are good to their own.
But for the moment, I am pleased to have been given this chance to contrive my own fable and plead my own case before the necrologists get at me.
Meanwhile, a procession of alliance spokesmen have appeared on TV to plead for US assistance.
If she wants to plead good reason on this occasion, she also needs to apologise.
As counsel for the Bank has pointed out, the Statement of Defence does not plead unconscionability.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The past tense and past participle of plead are pleaded and not plead or pled.
He is guiltless in the eye of the world, and that at least should plead for him.
Why does he immediately add that for the pluralist to plead the non-mutation of such abstractions would be an ignoratio elenchi?
And truly, if an indiscriminating selfishness could plead for him, the apology was admirable.
He refused to plead, was condemned to prison for life, and his goods were inventoried.
You heard him plead, in extenuation of his fault, his mode of life, his rearing.
I know not whether the litai of whom Homer speaks may plead for us through another.
The latter is really in love with Filene all the time, and when lycoris comes to plead his cause, she readily grants her audience.
They had lived as many had lived who have no different excuse to plead for their penury.
And when you are here, we will plead the cause in form, to rejoinder and sur-rejoinder, rebutter and sur-rebutter.
Dear young reader, do not imagine that we plead in favour of moroseness or gloom.
He unpinned and flung aside the sheets as though to let Phaedra plead for herself.
But what then can I plead for a palliation to myself of my mother's sufferings on my account?
They tried to make her plead 'Not guilty,' but she wouldn't lie about it, she said.
I must plead guilty to the charge, not having leisure to apply the pruning hook of correction.
Besides, could he not plead that he had repaid the pals who had been scragged?
Twice has the great Republican party, in the plentitude of its power, allowed woman ten minutes to plead her cause before it.
He was guilty of absconding, but his moderation might plead an excuse for that.
I cannot plead ignorance of the golfer's point of view as an excuse for my plottings.
He became a bencher in the same year, and began to plead in the courts of Westminster.
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