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

Reflecting his deep interest in religion and spirituality, above the door is inscribed the prayer: "Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord."

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026

“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

Adrastus, the only one alive of the seven who had started the war, came to Theseus, King of Athens, to beseech him to induce the Thebans to allow the bodies to be buried.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Tormented by spiritual agony and the systemic lupus that would kill her at 39, O’Connor, a lifelong Catholic, beseeches him: “I long for grace,” she cries.

From New York Times ● May 2, 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

A woman dressed as a dugong, a rare marine mammal, beseeched passers-by to end the burning of fossil fuels.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2023

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

Some of the boys, with their new Yoruba names, beseeched these girls by citing Frantz Fanon.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

As if I had besought them as a favour to bother my life out.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

Just a little more beseeching, a few amens, and we’d head home for cold pigeon pie and sour pickles.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson