beseech
verb (used with object)
to implore urgently.
was beseeching
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past progressiveof beseech.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Though his presidential campaign was a shambles, Muskie was beseeching the delegates to stand fast at the state convention.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was beseeching in his tone, and his soft eyes glowed.
From Coquette by Frank Swinnerton
I wish that your foolish kinsfolk—' He could say no more, for Undine's hand was over his lips, and her voice was beseeching him to be silent.
From Undine by Katharine Cameron
Then her ideas grew confused, though her supplications to the child continued—at one moment she was beseeching, at another answering in her own person.
From A Love Episode by Émile Zola
The big brown eyes of the collie looked up in his master's face and in them was beseeching adoration.
From The Man in Lonely Land by Kate Langley Bosher
