begging
Example Sentences
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Sailors have reported being fed “rotten” food or barely being fed at all, and desperate family members have been begging the Navy for relief.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
“We’re urging, we’re begging, we’re pleading to send more resources,” Jurado said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
“I’m asking you, begging you, to do the right thing now,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
US television star journalist Savannah Guthrie made an emotional appeal Saturday for anyone with information about her mother's disappearance to come forward, saying "we are begging for help" six months after the kidnapping took place.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
I kept writing, kept begging him to write back.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
