- present participle of beg.
begging
Example Sentences
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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
"So we were begging – I'd usually go down and speak to people about what I was trying to do. I explained I wasn't going to tear up their space or anything like that."
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
“People, I would argue, are not even begging to use AI,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Everyone in Black Alliance has followed me out to the hallway and are begging me to stop.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
