begging
Example Sentences
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"She was begging for help," Clancy's former mother-in-law, Susan Clancy, said of a woman she described as a "very nurturing, very loving" mother.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
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
“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
“Why didn’t you come forward,” I ask, accusing and begging her at once.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
