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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To Max, standing a little apart, the width of the room betwixt him and the woman singing, it seemed as though she were entreating him . . . calling to him.
From The Splendid Folly by Margaret Pedler
On Christ's behalf, then, we are ambassadors, as though God were entreating by us; we pray on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. v.
From Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels
The drivers of all these vehicles were entreating him in one voice to stroll elsewhere.
From Here are Ladies by James Stephens
They daily were entreating for leave at once to part, But Hagan still refus'd it through subtlety of heart.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
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
