(n.) A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.
(v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.
(v. t.) To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.
(v. t.) To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.
(v. t.) To take for granted; to assume without proof.
(v. t.) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
(v. i.) To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
Example Sentences:
(1) I had to beg to stay in the apartment I was living in at the time for another night.
(2) She said: “Begging can cause considerable concern to residents, workers and visitors, particularly those who feel intimidated by this activity.” In Merseyside, Ch Insp Mark Morgan insisted his force did not prosecute vulnerable people unless they were aggressive, repeat offenders who had failed to engage in offers of support.
(3) The other day I had to BEG a meeting with [BBC1 controller] Jay Hunt, just so I could explain what we're spending all her money on in Doctor Who.
(4) x head "We have the begging bowl out to Europe in the hope of stabilising our economy.
(5) This begs the question of whether racism informed the way he was treated.
(6) The weakest free schools have ineffective leadership ... with little challenge to tackle poor performance.” The report said that the best leaders “understand inspection”, begging the question of whether schools are expected to lead for Ofsted?
(7) Since this dedicated unit was disbanded there has been a significant increase in the numbers of people who are begging, she told the council earlier this year.
(8) Flattered, entreated, begged by the rest of the committee, he did not yield: "Recommendations are recommendations, there it is"; and "I honestly believe it's all there"; "I promise you I have done my very best"; "if I hadn't thought my recommendations were fit for purpose, I would not have made them"; "with all due respect, I could not have done any more than I did".
(9) Any Championship managers watching this will most definitely not be looking forward to next season’s meetings with Newcastle, which rather begs the question: how on earth did it come this?
(10) I begged them to take me to the toilet when we stopped but they refused.
(11) Two of them begged for a rescue mission in phone calls yesterday, as the battles raged through a powerful sandstorm that shrouded the city from journalists and anxious refugees who have been watching the fighting from the safety of Turkish soil, just a few hundred feet away.
(12) She said that although Unicef was doing all it could to protect Syrian children and to help them continue their education, it was a difficult task: some have taken to begging or working in fields or factories to help supplement their families' income, and many girls are getting married earlier without finishing their schooling.
(13) Trump responded by recalling Romney “begging” for his endorsement four years before.
(14) I had seen him begging in the city centre a few times and had slipped him a few bob from time to time.
(15) Some say they were trying to reach Algeria to beg on city streets, others that Europe was their destination.
(16) However this begs the question, if Spotify are not the enemy, who is?
(17) Then go beg the lady with the clipboard, while others swan past to join the cocktail-swilling vacationers swathed in white linen on the porch.
(18) However, providers, physicians and hospitals are begging for relief from the burden of uncompensated care.
(19) Instead, I made my way to Satis to beg Miss Havisham to secretly confer several thousand pounds on Herbert.
(20) It begs the question – were the comments he made after the Hillsborough panel report sincere or just sound bites?"
Bey
Definition:
(n.) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of Tunis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here's Bey and Jay, smoking a cigar in what looks like a well-manicured garden!
(2) To mark the beginning of Ramadan, the human rights group Reprieve has released to the Guardian a video in which the actor and rapper Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) submits himself to the enteral feeding imposed in Guantánamo.
(3) But I have lower standards than Slate because I really don't care why Hov and Bey are forsaking meat, fish and dairy as there are too many other compensations here.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yasiin Bey force-fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure.
(5) Remember that she's often brought into the "life" by drug dealers who promise her a celebrity lifestyle, clothes like the ones Beyoncé wears, and situation where she can live like Queen Bey: looking hot, being desired by alpha males, wielding power over others with her body and sexuality.
(6) The tour played into both of the pair's strengths: Jay brought the Brooklyn bravado and Bey brought the southern strut.
(7) Wearing a dusty pinstriped suit jacket and apologising for not having showered in six days, 51-year-old Peter Bey was unsure.
(8) It shows a plastic tube being inserted through Bey's nostril into his stomach.
(9) This report clarifies a physiological function of cadaverine in this organism by using DL-alpha-difluoromethyllysine, which had previously been shown to be a selective irreversible inhibitor of lysine decarboxylase of Mycoplasma dispar (Pösö, H., MaCann, P.P., Tanskanen, R., Bey, P., and Sjoerdsma, A.
(10) The reason I heard of Cafe Gratitude is because Gwyneth Paltrow recommended it on her blog Goop – the bible of elitist food fussiness – and I would bet my cashew nut butter that Gwynnie recommended it to her friends Jay and Bey.
(11) They upped the tempo with Upgrade You, and Bey released her golden mane, hair flipping around her husband in true Sasha Fierce fashion.
(12) As a recent New York Times article points out, so-called Queen Bey seemed to stop accepting face-to-face interview requests altogether some time between spring 2013 and the surprise release of her self-titled album in December that year.
(13) 3.6m page views, 438 comments 2) Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force-fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure – video Monday 8 July 2013 In a distressing four minutes and 38 seconds, filmed for the Guardian and the campaign group Reprieve by the Bafta-winning documentary-maker Asif Kapadia , the rapper agreed to be force-fed in the same way as 45 inmates at Guantánamo Bay were undergoing each day.
(14) Frankly, with her two earpierces and stripped back performance, she may as well have had "suck it Bey" painted on the side of the baby grand.
(15) Once the show finally began, Jay and Bey charged through their repertoire at a spitfire pace.
(16) Long time Bey fans will recall an early Destiny’s Child era cover of The Face in 2000 while newer ones will think of the Drunk in Love video on the beach.
(17) Bey, like many others, is hip to the freeing possibilities of good health, even if that means restricting the things you eat.
(18) These results provide support for the postulated mechanism of action of DFMO [Metcalf, Bey, Danzin, Jung, Casera & Vevert (1978) J.
(19) Yasiin Bey, AKA Mos Def, meanwhile, took consciousness to another level in a video to highlight the inhumanity of force-feeding Guantánamo Bay hunger strikers .
(20) In a true nod to the 1930s outlaws, Jay and Bey eventually get caught by what we assume is the police and shot to death in their car.