Example Sentences

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In a sequence that would mortify anyone averse to audience participation, he gently beseeches a handful of patrons to stand with their hands up and foreheads against the wall, like a row of perpetrators.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2024

The IRS beseeches taxpayers to avoid paper like the plague: Do not file paper returns and do not ask for a paper refund check if you want timely action.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2022

Modeled on Ntozake Shange’s lyrical 1976 play, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf,” “Thoughts of a Colored Man” both validates and beseeches.

From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2021

TV reporter Bruce Nolan, who beseeches God for divine intervention after he loses a job promotion.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2019

If the dead can appear to the living, Lourdes beseeches God through tears, allow Victor to show himself so she can say good-bye.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario