Famous institutions buy expensive plane tickets for graduate students, and long-revered professors practically plead with them to accept jobs.

Doesn't matter: The venture capitalists are practically pleading with him to be allowed to invest in it.

By this time several passengers perked up, calling the couple back, practically pleading for the opportunity to give them the required change.

Gumbel refused several times although the dancer practically pleaded with him to do so.

Here he was practically pleading with me: "He changed!"

And at one point, he practically pleaded to be brought back into the process.

Now there is Jones, and Byrd was practically pleading for the opportunity.

She'd wanted to come: hadn't she practically pleaded with him that evening when he met her in the Rooftop Lounge?

How can a pianist of his sensitivity not allow music to breathe when it practically pleads for more expansiveness?

I can stay for,; visit," he said, practically pleading.