INTERCEDE in a Sentence

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Block was very pleased at this and with lively, but silent, gestures he immediately urged her to intercede for him with the lawyer.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTERCEDE
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Classic Sentence:
1  Should you grant that request, all will be forgotten and blotted out and pardoned, for I myself will intercede with the Throne on your behalf.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
2  Now the father has come to intercede for him.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER X
3  But now that I see your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish whatsoever to intercede on your behalf.
Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In I
4  Block was very pleased at this and with lively, but silent, gestures he immediately urged her to intercede for him with the lawyer.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Eight Block, the businessman - Dismissing the law...
5  Twenty times he interceded for Edmond.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27. The Story.
6  "It was my fault, mon pere," interceded the little princess, with a blush.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
7  And it is just by interceding for him that you make it impossible for me to keep him.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
Example Sentence:
1  Several religious leaders have interceded with the authorities on behalf of the condemned prisoner.