Definition: 1. Appeal or request earnestly. 2. Offer as an excuse or plea. 3. Enter a plea, as in courts of law. 4. Make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts.
Use 'plead' in a sentence:
1. I plead guilty as charged.
2. I was forced to plead for my child's life.
3. He was asked to plead for the accused.
4. Do you plead for attention?
5. They hired a top lawyer to plead their case.
6. The Tories will not be able to plead ignorance.
7. German leaders all took the opportunity to denounce the attacks and plead for tolerance.
8. The friend of God can plead with Him for others.
9. She pleaded with him not to go.
10. She appeared on television to plead the cause of political prisoners everywhere.
11. Do you plead guilty to stealing the bicycle?
12. Judge Randall White: and knowing that, you wish to plead guilty?
13. He is one of the reservists who will plead not guilty when their cases come up.
14. 'Do not say that,' she pleaded.
15. He told her to plead guilty.
16. They pleaded guilty to lesser charges of criminal damage.
17. Whether at home or in the company we are sometimes misunderstood, must we plead to recover the equity?
18. The woman charged with murder was said to be mad and unfit to plead.
19. How can I surrender, God? I plead. How can I let go of everything good in my life?
20. His mother did her best to plead his case.
21. One should not plead inexperience in excuse of his mistake.
22. I pleaded to be allowed to go.
23. Mr Burke, pleading poverty, changed his mind.
24. He appeared before the Committee to plead his case.
25. I 'm sorry I didn't answer your letter - I can only plead forgetfulness.
26. They will plead with him to pull back from confrontation.
27. We plead for lifestyle changes and strict tobacco regulation.
28. She pleaded with him but he remained unmoved.
29. She badgered her doctor time and again, pleading with him to do something.
30. I heard him plead in court only once.
31. All plead not guilty and were acquitted of the charges.
32. You: "I plead drunken immunity."
33. German leaders denounced the attacks and pleaded for tolerance.
34. He says, I plead guilty, but your physics is useless at this length scale.
35. Some voices plead for a return to peace.
36. If you don't have any, beg and plead with a classmate to photocopy theirs.
37. Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
38. He would plead the cause of Russian unity.
39. Mr Clarke had pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving.
40. He pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud the government.
41. He appeared before the committee to plead his case.
42. She pleaded guilty to five traffic offenses.
43. All the accused have pleaded guilty.
44. He pleaded guilty to murder.
45. He pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol.
46. The Secretary of State has given in to special pleading.
47. The lady pleaded with her daughter to come back home.
48. He pleaded family problems for his lack of concentration.
49. 'Do something!' she pleaded.
50. My client pleads guilty, M'lud.
51. After a series of road accidents the police pleaded for sanity among drivers.
52. He pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm.
53. He was encouraged to plead guilty to the lesser offence.
