- present participle of beg.
begging
Example Sentences
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"It's terrifying," she said, before adding in an apparent plea to authorities: "Please, I'm begging you, do something to stop this."
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
That’s despite the Iran war pushing oil prices above $100 a barrel, a new Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hike and artificial-intelligence executives publicly begging their own industry to slow down.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
He added he had not considered standing down, but "when you've got your family begging you to, it's not easy".
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
“People, I would argue, are not even begging to use AI,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
“He knows we’re going someplace,” I said, “and he’s begging me to let him go with us.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
