beseech

Example Sentences

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“Please put an end to this,” a viewer from Roseburg, Ore., beseeched the federal watchdog organization.

From Los Angeles Times

Recalling the 1962 Cuban missile crisis in that book, Khrushchev branded Fidel Castro a “hothead” who had beseeched Moscow to attack the United States.

From New York Times

Outside bakeries, women covered in burqas huddle on plastic sacks, beseeching customers to buy them a piece of warm flatbread.

From Washington Post

Assembled inside a megachurch, longtime local party leaders beseeched the crowd of hundreds to mark their choices on ballots and trust machines to count them.

From Washington Post

The climactic second act, “Auction,” beseeches its audience to bid for “viewing rights” to Arctic forests, to keep them out of harm’s way.

From Washington Post