beseech

Its inscription "I beseech thee, holy sun of righteousness, be the way" has not been found on any other object, according to historian Helen Geake.

From BBC ● Nov. 19, 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

"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

Wang Lung was pleased at her strength, although he cared nothing for festivities on this year, and he sent Cuckoo in to beseech Liu, the grain merchant, seeing how sad the case was.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2019

As in the ’33 Kong, Carl Denham beseeches his leading lady to scream, but rather than a Fay Wray shriek, Pitts offers a warrior’s cry—one that echoes Kong’s.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2018

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

"The year of 2024 demands your response - from everyone in the world," he beseeched delegates when he spoke from the top podium.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2024

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

A woman dressed as a dugong, a rare marine mammal, beseeched passers-by to end the burning of fossil fuels.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2023

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

He beseeched Leahy to ask Flint Moss, an attorney whom Burkhart knew, to come see him.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

Then, turning to him, “Oh, do let’s go back, Bernard,” she besought; “I do so hate it here.”

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

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

She gave her brother a beseeching look, but he only pushed harder.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty