beseech

"I really beseech the court to allow this trial to continue," he added.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025

“I beseech you to control him, if you can.”

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

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

Her letter beseeches the Administration to move “quickly” and with “urgency” on the federal review needed to expand the Algonquin gas pipeline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

In a sequence that would mortify anyone averse to audience participation, he gently beseeches a handful of patrons to stand with their hands up and foreheads against the wall, like a row of perpetrators.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 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

It beseeches us to seize the day — a practice one wishes on theaters and theatergoers everywhere.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2021

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

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

“Please put an end to this,” a viewer from Roseburg, Ore., beseeched the federal watchdog organization.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 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

I also besought Michael Harrison for his insights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2024

Wonderly pleaded guilty, and Emerson besought “compensation under state law.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2023

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

Mr. Xi’s restraint, by contrast, made it appear as if he viewed Mr. Trump as the beseeching party in the relationship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 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

"Glub, glub," the stone said, and when the stonecutter raised his head to look at the stone, he saw the beseeching eyes of a trapped creature.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin