beseech
verb (used with object)
to implore urgently.
Example Sentences
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By day three the flip is gone, “and there is no beseeching the island for more. It is time instead to set about the business of surviving.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Little wonder the local community is beseeching the heavens for rain.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2025
We passed multiple radar speed signs, declaiming mph numbers, beseeching drivers to slow down.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025
Business and union leaders joined in publicly and privately, beseeching him not to go down this idiotic road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025
"Glub, glub," the stone said, and when the stonecutter raised his head to look at the stone, he saw the beseeching eyes of a trapped creature.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
