Sample Sentences for
beseech
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    His prayer didn't give thanks for his sheep having found new pastures; it didn't ask that the boy be able to sell more crystal; and it didn't beseech that the woman he had met continue to await his return.  (source)
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    Finally I walked to the window and gazed out at the peach trees stretching halfway to North Carolina, the way they held up their leafy arms in gestures of pure beseeching.  (source)
    beseeching = asking strongly or begging
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    "I beseech you to hear me," said the Knight, forcing himself to speak calmly.  (source)
    beseech = to ask strongly or beg
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    Aphrodite, with the Goddess's voice I beseech you to tell her Priestess what it is you see.  (source)
    beseech = ask strongly or beg
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    Then, turning to him, "Oh, do let's go back, Bernard," she besought; "I do so hate it here."†  (source)
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    Jim Weston had secretly borrowed a dime and soon he was loudly beseeching Daisy to have a treat on him.  (source)
    beseeching = asking or begging
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    (Beseechingly) Then why can't there never be no peace in this house then?  (source)
    Beseechingly = in a manner that asks strongly or begs
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    She begged and wept and beseeched her husband to change his mind, to let it go,  (source)
    beseeched = asked strongly or begged
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    If the dead can appear to the living, Lourdes beseeches God through tears, allow Victor to show himself so she can say good-bye.†  (source)
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    All the first years, their only question had been—asked with beseechings and tears that might have moved stones, in time, perhaps, but hearts are not stones: "Is he alive?"†  (source)
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    Idleness had been worse; My labour will sustain me; and, lest cold Or heat should injure us, his timely care Hath, unbesought, provided; and his hands Clothed us unworthy, pitying while he judged; How much more, if we pray him, will his ear Be open, and his heart to pity incline, And teach us further by what means to shun The inclement seasons, rain, ice, hail, and snow!†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbesought means not and reverses the meaning of besought. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    "O Oysters, come and walk with us!" The Walrus did beseech. "A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, Along the briny beach:"  (source)
    beseech = request
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    He besought me, therefore, to leave my solitary isle and to meet him at Perth, that we might proceed southwards together.†  (source)
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