beseech
verb (used with object)
to implore urgently.
were 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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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
Her whole soul was in them; they were beseeching him, they were thanking him, they were saying goodbye.
From The Black Cross by Olive M. Briggs
But the older courtiers and the archbishop Oppas were beseeching the king to refrain.
From Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
It seemed that the bishop was reading something which the people all around her were beseeching the Lord to hear.
From Calvary Alley by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice
She begged the Church to send up other ladies, but the months passed, and meanwhile two churches were ready in the district, and the people were beseeching her to come.
From The White Queen of Okoyong A True Story of Adventure Heroism and Faith by W.P. Livingstone
