"request" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A plaintive request, almost begging.
- The exercise sessions resembled an endless beach party, including plaintive late-night requests for "just one more go at the balance ball."
- My teachers rebuffed every plaintive request, so I was doomed to remain; fearful and anxious, undersized, fighting back tears.
- Ultimately, his plaintive requests go unrequited.
- Thrning down such a plaintive request from the team's sponsor wasn't a serious option.
- Idaho felt shamed by the plaintive request.
- A request, somewhat plaintive, to turn away from the woman to the work, which is also characteristic: "Do you mind if we talk about cast-iron architecture?"
- Its Web site includes a plaintive request for money to "save the Barnes," which it warns "may close in as little as a year" without an infusion of cash.
- (Why else do children try to stave off the darkness with plaintive requests to hear their favorite bedtime story just once more?)
- The song records the plaintive request of a dying man not to be buried on the prairie, away from civilization.
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