In a sentence
Six example sentences with plea, each labelled with its topic.
The mayor received a written plea from flood victims asking her to reopen the shelter for one more week.
Politics
The family's plea to the hospital board won the boy a transplant slot that the waiting list had denied him.
Medicine
Villagers sent the minister a plea to stop the quarry blasting, signed by everyone whose well had run dry.
Environment
Peasants carried a plea to the young king in 1381 asking him to end the poll tax, and for one day he agreed.
History
The novel's climax is a plea to the magistrate, delivered by a girl who has never before spoken in public.
Literature
The shop owners drafted a plea to the landlord, asking for three months of reduced rent while the street was dug up.
Business
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