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
And, Jill——" his eyes were beseeching now—"I think, all the time, it's been really you—though I didn't guess it at the first!
From The Man with the Double Heart by Muriel Hine
The actors were beseeching, "Hey, Del, put some red in my nostrils—you put some in Rita's—gee, you didn't hardly do anything to my face."
From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
At night the muleteers were beseeching on their knees.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Little by little, however, as the novelty of the air wore off, the consciousness that they were beseeching the Man of Righteousness to come out to them blent with their yearning sympathy for their melody.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan
