beseechingly

Example Sentences

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Or, as Rep. Stacey Plaskett put it, simply, beseechingly, on Wednesday, “This happened.”

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2021

Then she lifted her thin, blue-veined hands and clasped them beseechingly.

From Time • Oct. 14, 2016

“John,” Cruz says, beseechingly, “this party is really just for people who have a path forward at the convention.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2016

Critics have written beseechingly about the need to build a real opera house in Boston.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2015

She turned to the king, beseechingly, but he, too, looked away, his face crumpled with distaste.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas