Sample Sentences for
appeal
grouped by contextual meaning
(editor-reviewed)

appeal as in:  appealed for help

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    The police appealed for help identifying the shooter.
    appealed = asked
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    My parents said I couldn't go, but I appealed their decision and asked them to remember when they were in high school. They finally agreed to let me go on three conditions.
    appealed = requested that they reverse or overturn [their decision]
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    "If he loses his appeal," I asked one evening, "what'll happen to him?"  (source)
    appeal = request that a decision be overturned
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    "And if there are, you know there's an appeal process."  (source)
    appeal = request (to overturn a decision)
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    She was a judge on the United States Circuit Court of Appeals.  (source)
    Appeals = requests or challenges (of a lower court's decision)
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    Some looked appealingly at those who had come to observe their humiliation, this prelude to their deaths.  (source)
    appealingly = in a manner that asks for help
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    She appealed to her husband.  (source)
    appealed = asked
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    "Come, pig!" said Mr. Zuckerman, tapping the pail. ... "He's appealing to your stomach."  (source)
    appealing = asking (in a way that is of interest)
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    His advice was to appeal to God and that He would answer our prayers.  (source)
    appeal = make a request
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    The museum replies to Etienne's appeals; they report that Marie-Laure's father never arrived.†  (source)
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    Because Dell was so tired, he looked appealingly like someone who had been to mime school.†  (source)
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    But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting…  (source)
    appealed = called upon
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    PROCTOR, turning, appealing to Hale: Mr. Hale!  (source)
    appealing = asking
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appeal as in:  appeals to youthful tastes

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She has an appealing smile.
appealing = attractive
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    Her enthusiasm appeals to me.
    appeals = is attractive
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    The music has popular appeal.
    appeal = attractiveness
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    Part of its appeal is that it is a new approach.
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    Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere.  (source)
    appealed = were attractive
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    Roy had other options, none particularly appealing.  (source)
    appealing = attractive or desirable
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    The food Mrs. Byrne makes is bland and unappealing—soft gray peas from a can, starchy boiled potatoes, watery stews—and there's never enough of it.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unappealing means not and reverses the meaning of appealing. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    And, far from being highway robbery, a costly price tag actually increases the appeal of the park.  (source)
    appeal = desirability
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    That's the detail that appeals to me.  (source)
    appeals = is attractive or desirable
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    Her face had grown slightly puffy and her body had softened and slumped, but when she studied the family album she thought that her younger self seemed unappealingly puny by comparison—pinched and tight, almost starved-looking.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unappealingly means not and reverses the meaning of appealingly. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    None of the games appealed to him, the way he felt now.  (source)
    appealed = were attractive or desirable
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    The idea of being able to escape so easily was appealing.  (source)
    appealing = attractive or desirable
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    An awkward embrace, want clutched close by riches, but for Paul Berlin it was not unappealing.†  (source)
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    If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.  (source)
    appeal = are attractive
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