were beseeching
- past progressive of beseech.
Example Sentences
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Except this was July, the teams were called the Sting and the Liberty, and the players that the fans were beseeching for autographs were not Ewing and Rice but Lobo and Bullett.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And he looked upon her piteously, as if he were beseeching.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by Morris, William
But the older courtiers and the archbishop Oppas were beseeching the king to refrain.
From Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
The girl's eyes were beseeching, and she looked curiously forlorn.
From Long Odds by Bindloss, Harold
Jesus had withdrawn to “a desert place,” but the eager multitudes had found him and were beseeching him not to go from them.
From The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition by Erdman, Charles Rosenbury