beseech

“I beseech you to control him if you can. If you can’t, I will. I will excuse him and draw every negative inference that I can,” said Engoron.

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

"I beseech you to control him, if you can," the judge said again shortly after, warning Kise that he would control the former president if the attorney did not.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2023

Grant this, we beseech thee, O merciful Father, through Jesus Christ, our mediator and redeemer.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2022

Barrius’s eyes beseech the courtyard, seeking out anyone willing to offer him a shred of pity.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

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

Over a two-chord throb, Mr. Atkinson beseeches: “Do you need me?/Do you always want me by your side?”

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2017

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

They coaxed, cajoled, begged and beseeched for support to bring the tournament to North America.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

"The year of 2024 demands your response - from everyone in the world," he beseeched delegates when he spoke from the top podium.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2024

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

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

Anaheim besought the court’s help but lost, and the team became just the Los Angeles Angels once more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 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

By day three the flip is gone, “and there is no beseeching the island for more. It is time instead to set about the business of surviving.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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

I stare at him, beseeching the aliens or Clark Gable or whoever’s in charge of soul abductions to bring back my brother.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson