How to Use beseech in a Sentence

beseech

verb

• In her misery, the queen beseeched the priest Kentigern to help her.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2020
• To do that Oliver beseeched the states to take a stand and ratify the ERA.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 10 June 2019
• Ghosts and forest spirits warn him of his doom and beseech him to turn around.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2021
• Sweeney, who wore a Marine veteran's hat, beseeched the group to take a stand.
  — The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2024
• Labor and business leaders have beseeched Netanyahu to hit the brakes, so far to no avail.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• The product has since racked up a wait list of more than 4,000 eager fans, all of whom have been beseeching the brand to bring back the beloved lip treatment.
  — Courtney Thompson, CNN Underscored, 26 Dec. 2019
• Jamie beseeches the governor to let his wife go, but the father-to-be isn't having it.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 17 June 2023
• Sanders, who will turn 79 before the next election, was beseeching people not to wait on him to save them.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 10 June 2017
• Wild and urgent rituals to beseech the powers that were, to save us from the increasing dark.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Dec. 2014
• Between numbers, the local singer paused and in a gravelly drawl, beseeched the crowd to be thankful.
  — Michael Democker, NOLA.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• Parents beseeched her with questions: Can my child travel out of the country?
  — Matt Ormseth, courant.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• The city posted signs beseeching parents not to let kids play inside the fountain.
  — Sara Cardine, La Cañada Valley Sun, 19 Sep. 2019
• Norwood’s hour-and-a-half speech had the passionate feel of a trial lawyer beseeching a jury.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 26 May 2017
• The letters were thought to beseech the protection of the Virgin Mary, say historians.
  — Fox News, 31 Oct. 2019
• Rickman's agent was flooded with offers, beseeching the actor to play more debonair ne'er-do-wells.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 25 May 2023
• In total, BuzzFeed News counted 44 times the officers beseeched Richards to drop his weapon.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 15 Sep. 2017
• The emails show Scalia Law beseeching the justices to attend a host of law school activities, as guests or speakers.
  — Jo Becker, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• Over a year later, the boy’s mother is beseeching Francis to bring his influence to bear.
  — Mauricio Cuevas, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2018
• Kasatkina ended the first set in 22 minutes and left Kerber beseeching the heavens for help.
  — Helene Elliott, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• The standoff eventually prompted Akleh’s brother, sitting on a man’s shoulders, to beseech the crowd to let the hearse through.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2022
• Our times beseech us to step into the chasm of uncertainty and become the agents of transformation our future needs.
  — Erica Ariel Fox, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
• Her mother beseeched those who mourned for Heyer to take up her commitment to social justice.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 17 Aug. 2017
• More than a dozen parents on Thursday night beseeched a Palm Beach County school district panel not to move their children from their middle school.
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun-Sentinel.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• Holbrook launched a full-on search on her own Facebook page, dropping a flurry of posts and pictures there, beseeching people to help her find Geraldine.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 26 June 2018
• Customers’ beseeching Wakeling to add shrimp scampi to his summer fare is paying off.
  — Nancy Miller, The Courier-Journal, 3 July 2018
• The President has been beseeching Beijing for a better relationship, to no great result, but Mr. Biden is now bungling even that.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 June 2023
• Even as the plight of Jews worsened, Laemmle kept trying to help them, often beseeching other public figures on their behalf.
  — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
• Some campaigns still were sending out emails before Tuesday night’s first quarter FEC deadline, beseeching donors for cash.
  — Laura Litvan, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
• His imperious likeness graces memes, video games, and ads for Dirty Devil Vodka; at fan conventions, masochistic fans beseech him to stare them down.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
• The weeks-long holiday period ends Friday, and many leaders have beseeched Israelis on all sides to act with greater tolerance during the holiest stretch of the Jewish calendar.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Aug 2024