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

"I beseech you to control him," the judge added.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2023

“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

At every meal she would beseech him not to be selfish and to remember that his little sister was sick and also needed food, but it was no use.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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

Modeled on Ntozake Shange’s lyrical 1976 play, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf,” “Thoughts of a Colored Man” both validates and beseeches.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2021

TV reporter Bruce Nolan, who beseeches God for divine intervention after he loses a job promotion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2019

He beseeches his son to do “your art stuff,” be alone, have your friends over.

From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2019

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

Many in the audience, meanwhile, beseeched the board to rethink the move.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

Worried that Ang Dorje was so distraught that he might refuse to go down, Hutchison beseeched him to descend from the Col immediately.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

I also besought Michael Harrison for his insights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2024

When the Fire Department ordered him to take it down, Van Meter besought a higher civic judgment — and lo!

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 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

“My lord,” I cried, beseeching him, “My lord, what’s happened?”

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz