beseeching

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

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

“All I want is to see her, while I’m still well,” Yokota said, beseeching the ambassador for continued support toward resolving the problem.

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

Sighing, King directs his eyes upward as if beseeching a witness from on high and politely declines: “I’m not your man.”