beseech
verb (used with object)
to implore urgently.
beseeches
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present tense formof beseech (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Her letter beseeches the Administration to move “quickly” and with “urgency” on the federal review needed to expand the Algonquin gas pipeline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Tormented by spiritual agony and the systemic lupus that would kill her at 39, O’Connor, a lifelong Catholic, beseeches him: “I long for grace,” she cries.
From New York Times ● May 2, 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
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
