beseech

At the All-Star Game, Trout might well hear Phillies fans beseech him to come play for the home team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Its inscription "I beseech thee, holy sun of righteousness, be the way" has not been found on any other object, according to historian Helen Geake.

From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2023

“I beseech you to control him, if you can.”

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2023

"I beseech you to control him if you can. If you can't, I will."

From Reuters ● Nov. 6, 2023

Wherefore I beseech thee, Sir Lancelot, to return again unto this realm and see my tomb, and pray some prayer more or less for my soul.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

In a sequence that would mortify anyone averse to audience participation, he gently beseeches a handful of patrons to stand with their hands up and foreheads against the wall, like a row of perpetrators.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

The IRS beseeches taxpayers to avoid paper like the plague: Do not file paper returns and do not ask for a paper refund check if you want timely action.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2022

TV reporter Bruce Nolan, who beseeches God for divine intervention after he loses a job promotion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2019

As in the ’33 Kong, Carl Denham beseeches his leading lady to scream, but rather than a Fay Wray shriek, Pitts offers a warrior’s cry—one that echoes Kong’s.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2018

If the dead can appear to the living, Lourdes beseeches God through tears, allow Victor to show himself so she can say good-bye.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Celtic staff beseeched them to clear off but their pleas were ignored.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026

He beseeched the U.S. government to dip into the millions of dollars Congress annually allocates to compensate victims of U.S. attacks.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2024

The United Nations, aid groups and Israeli human rights groups have beseeched Israel to allow water and emergency deliveries of fuel to flow into the Gaza Strip.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 15, 2023

They recited a litany of examples of Price bringing badly needed resources to his district, and beseeched the committee not to leave them without representation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2023

Captains of riverboats had heard about the virus by this time, and they refused to stop their boats anywhere along the length of the river in Bumba, even though people beseeched them from the banks.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Wonderly pleaded guilty, and Emerson besought “compensation under state law.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2023

When the Fire Department ordered him to take it down, Van Meter besought a higher civic judgment — and lo!

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2022

As a result, JWST’s development was besought by years of delays and setbacks, causing the project’s budget to grow to nearly $10 billion.

From The Verge ● Jul. 11, 2022

Determined, she took the train to Topeka and besought the state attorney general, also to no avail.

From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2021

Then, turning to him, “Oh, do let’s go back, Bernard,” she besought; “I do so hate it here.”

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Mr. Xi’s restraint, by contrast, made it appear as if he viewed Mr. Trump as the beseeching party in the relationship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

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

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