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

Finally I walked to the window and gazed out at the peach trees stretching halfway to North Carolina, the way they held up their leafy arms in gestures of pure beseeching.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd