Example Sentences

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Four years ago, the Ukrainians were begging for help.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

"We'd never experienced this before, and we were begging everybody who was qualified to help, and they weren't listening."

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2025

“Some of them started hoofing the experimenter, as if they were begging for help,” he says.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2023

People were begging Liberty Bay to stay, so Larson says, “The store stayed. It just never un-popped.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2023

Today she was talking about how well-rounded certain historical figures were, begging us to become “Renaissance men or women.”

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben