beseechingly

Example Sentences

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Or, as Rep. Stacey Plaskett put it, simply, beseechingly, on Wednesday, “This happened.”

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2021

As for the sweet, sorrowful voices, backed by fiddles and piano, they seem to come, beseechingly, from half-remembered family histories you might have been told by your grandparents.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2018

Then she lifted her thin, blue-veined hands and clasped them beseechingly.

From Time • Oct. 14, 2016

“John,” Cruz says, beseechingly, “this party is really just for people who have a path forward at the convention.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2016

Her eyes, wild and powerful, fixed themselves beseechingly on him, as if praying to him to make it true.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick