beseeching

Example Sentences

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Little wonder the local community is beseeching the heavens for rain.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025

We passed multiple radar speed signs, declaiming mph numbers, beseeching drivers to slow down.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2025

Business and union leaders joined in publicly and privately, beseeching him not to go down this idiotic road.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2025

He opened the forum by beseeching the candidates to "raise the bar" — and by comparison to Trump, they managed to do that.

From Salon • Nov. 20, 2023

And when at last I opened my eyes the silence which had enfolded me had given place to a pervasive murmur, the sound from the suppliant lips and beseeching throats of the multitude.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya