entreat
verb (used with object)
to ask (a person) earnestly; beseech; implore; beg.
were entreating
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past progressiveof entreat.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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They were entreating the rain to come--to come quickly.
From Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch by Horace Annesley Vachell
They were entreating him to let the bird out to them.
From The Irish Fairy Book by Various
They were entreating Aschael to sing, who liked being entreated, but said, No, Miriam was the singer.
From The Debit Account by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
We went on in the direction of Taklakot, followed at a distance by these ruffians, who were entreating us to make no further resistance and to go with them where they wanted us to go.
From An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet by Arnold Henry Savage Landor
He implied this when his ministers were entreating him, on the petition of the soldiers, to attend church.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by John Henry Newman
