beseeching
Example Sentences
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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
He opened the forum by beseeching the candidates to "raise the bar" — and by comparison to Trump, they managed to do that.
From Salon • Nov. 20, 2023
Tariq was still speaking, his voice hushed, then high, beseeching, then reasoning; his face hopeful, then stricken.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
