- present participle of beg.
begging
Example Sentences
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She’s an interloper among established thespians, a woman in her late 50s who has only just begun listening to the little voice inside her, the one begging her to step outside her comfort zone.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
"It's terrifying," she said, before adding in an apparent plea to authorities: "Please, I'm begging you, do something to stop this."
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
Their mother searched for her 20-year-old daughters everywhere, begging staff at hospitals, in courts and outside prisons for information about them, to no avail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
That’s despite the Iran war pushing oil prices above $100 a barrel, a new Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hike and artificial-intelligence executives publicly begging their own industry to slow down.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
She wondered if right now he was begging the other monks for forgiveness or trying to lie his way out of this.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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