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How to use pleading in a sentence

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In 1598 he killed a fellow actor in a duel, but escaped hanging by pleading benefit of clergy, being branded instead as a felon.
Despite their repeated pleading, the police did not allow them to make calls from their mobile phones, which they confiscated.
He was jailed for nine years after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply class A drugs and possession of cocaine and cannabis.
The judge gave him credit for pleading guilty which spared the girl the ordeal of attending court.
Three men with links to the Coffin Cheater bikie gang have been fined after pleading guilty to unlawful assault.
Awakening from catatonia and diving directly into high-decibel pleading, recriminations, and rants is no mean feat.
Having fought through the tears and pleading of our youngest daughter, we finally had the family prepared for their departure.
Whilst not going into what it was here, we were both pleading guilty with mitigating circumstances.
A desperate dad who had a fox shot after it allegedly bit his baby is pleading with an animal rights activist to leave his family alone.
Well, I begged for at least forty-five minutes until I realized that my pleading just wasn't going to get us that sign.
They solicited civic protection for their own conscientious practice of religion, pleading freedom from all oppression and molestation.
She was sentenced Tuesday in Los Angeles after pleading no contest to voluntary manslaughter.
The cotton factory owners were pleading with the government to intervene on the side of the South in order to lift the blockade.
Also, after much pleading and begging on Powell's part, her mother finally bought her contact lenses.
Chris nodded, her eyes again filling at the earnestness and pleading behind his tone.
Yes, it will take some pleading, but this ties into something else I really can't talk about at the moment.
He speaks under protest, pleading that he has so far managed to avoid being photographed or profiled and would quite like to keep it that way.
A TEENAGER, scarred for life when she was bottled in the face in a nightclub row, is pleading for witnesses to come forward.
Jack's unspeaking mouth turned up in the slightest grin, his eyes pleading.
The pleading against the solicitor is in the alternative, in negligence for breach of duty of care and in equity for breach of fiduciary duty.
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Examples from Classical Literature
My letters of pleading, like my calls and telephone efforts, were still ignored.
Her hand was on his arm in beguiling caress, her eyes were pleading into his.
All that is very ingenious, Leon, and your special pleading is magnificent.
Her last thought as she fell into a dreamless slumber was a prayer for the two for whom she had been so importunately pleading.
It was a penetrating concord of inarticulately pleading, accusing sounds, accompanied by gestures of the most exquisite propriety.
He was speaking as though pleading the cause, when old tabaret interrupted him.
As if he had been pleading his own cause, Thayer's voice was full of earnest eagerness.
From this unalluring suggestion I begged off, justly pleading a hard day of work ahead.
But the pleading which monism is here able to supply can never be silenced.
There was a pathetic pleading in the dulled eyes with which he regarded the Inspector.
He heard the mother beating and scolding, and nabla crying and pleading within.
He caught her to him in a great embrace and kissed her pleading, upturned face.
And so he went over the same ground and most angelically refuted himself from the beginning of his former pleading to the end.
The pleading was crafty, and it was penetrative in the avoidance of stress.
But I am tired of fencing with shadows and special pleading with casuists.
He spoke insistently, almost pleading with her in his eagerness to cover up that yawning silence.
Certainly it was a fine and dramatic bit of impromptu pleading.
And all that time Leonora was defending her rival, and pleading her cause!
I am not pleading for the indiscriminating indulgence in doubtful stories.
Despite special pleading about the level of demand for ambulances, demand should not be a surprise to Labour.
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