begging

Example Sentences

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But in February, Pérez appeared before a judge and asked to end her asylum case, begging to be sent to Mexico rather than her home country, where she believes she can never return.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

The mix of worlds is giddy, begging for splendor.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

By this point, one of her friends was walking from shop to shop in the town where Sally lived begging staff not to sell anything to her.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

"We have people begging for me to do this. People that are in great pain," Trump said in the Oval Office.

From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026

But then I pictured my father up north in New Jersey begging for work, and the devastated look on my mother’s face, and I hardened my heart.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm