(v. t.) To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore.
(n.) Solicitation; supplication.
Example Sentences:
(1) After his death, the young man's parents contacted police to admit that they had helped him achieve his wish to end "a second-class existence" by taking him abroad – despite praying to the last second, and beseeching him to change his mind.
(2) Opposition to the policy decision was mounted by the American Medical Association which considered it "frightening and abhorrent" and the american College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists which beseeched Congress to restore the patient's rights to receive full information and the health professional obligation to provide the information.
(3) In the name of this suffering people, whose cries to heaven become more deafening each day, I beg you, I beseech you, I order you in the name of God: stop the repression,” he said in a speech to government soldiers the day before his death.
(4) He's beseeching the members of the committee to recognize the value of the work the intelligence community does.
(5) This is not a man who has to charm or beseech an audience; his ideas are what he uses to win people over.
(6) He stares at her, “beseeching, demanding my help, but I am powerless, too.
(8) The prime minister doesn’t hesitate to beseech the markets to attack the country,” Syriza said.
(9) After its Google News search returned more than 43,000 results for the search "Hollande + Normal", and more than 88,000 for "President + normal", the site launched a "No 'Normal' Day", hashtagged on Twitter, in which it beseeched journalists to broaden their vocabulary, asking did they really mean "normal", or perhaps "ordinary", "natural", "sober", "honest" or "reasonable"?
(10) Kassig’s parents have also posted a video message online beseeching the group to release him unharmed.
(11) At least 100,000 tourists who had driven to Greece from neighbouring Bulgaria and Serbia were stranded, with thousands abandoning their cars by the side of the road and officials taking the highly unusual step of beseeching visitors to stock up on fuel in Macedonia.
(12) That said, the Telegraph’s commenting threads do not seem to be similarly filled with Green party supporters beseeching its readership to consider the full consequences of climate change.
(13) His critic pleaded for "this whole sorry saga to go the way of the dodo", while other Fry fans beseeched him not pull the plug on his tweets, prompting Fry into a change of heart.
(14) he was asked by beseeching Spanish reporters after taking training at Seville, as the saga of his move to Spurs dragged on.
(15) Finally, the necessity of uniform techniques and methods of evaluation is beseeched so that results of new innovations can be analyzed earlier and more critically.
(16) But, beseeched Paxman, "do you think that's a greater consideration than the fact that they might be in love?"
(17) Come see yourself.” Blair urged Gaddafi to give him a phone number so he could contact him urgently, and beseeched him to “do something that allows the process to start, end the bloodshed, start a new constitution”.
(18) In debates with friends, family and neighbours, at times hectoring, at others beseeching, filled with venom and vigour on both sides, such a close race is going to be won one vote at a time.
(19) Oscillating between fury and despair, the customers beseech pharmacists to hand over medications that they frequently do not have in stock.
(20) Seconds before, Dalglish was on the touchline beseeching his player to calm down.
Imploringly
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In perhaps the most telling exchange, May implored Juncker, “Let us make Brexit a success.” The commission president responded that while he didn’t want chaos, “Brexit cannot be a success.” No 10 has said it does not recognise the account.
(2) In October 2007, under the nom de guerre Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki (the American) he gave an interview to al-Jazeera in which he implored other Muslim Americans to join him in Somalia.
(3) Michael John Bull of the British charity Street Child Liberia implores the group to take precautions.
(4) We implore the British government to go ahead with the exercise to allow us to go back to our homeland.” Many of the exiled Chagossian community now live in Crawley, West Sussex.
(5) I implore the media to temper further one-sided misrepresentations about this crucial matter that affects the wellbeing of the general public.
(6) And easyJet implores you to “ Fly greener, fly easyJet ”, saying its fleet is newer and more energy-efficient, while disregarding the need to drastically reduce flight volumes.
(7) Over 70 mental health organisations have written to prime minister Tony Abbott imploring him to maintain $300m in annual funding to mental health services that are preparing to sack staff as they face an end to commonwealth grants on 30 June.
(8) According to Beatty, the 21-year-old was imploring others to remain peaceful and return home when he was “snatched” off the street.
(9) Khan's mother said she had been shocked at how different he seemed in the video, which is entitled There's No Life Without Jihad and shows Khan, Nasser Muthana and three other men brandishing guns as they implore others to join them fighting in Syria.
(10) Snowden implored developers to spend more time and effort focusing on helping users maintain their privacy.
(11) Comey was back before Congress this week - this time in front of the House Appropriations Committee - imploring Congressmen to pass a law that would force tech companies to create a backdoor in any phone or communications tool that uses encryption.
(12) Nenes' tourist-friendly melodies can seem a world away from Kina's ceaseless quest for social and political change, an artist who implores the world's armies to swap their weapons for musical instruments.
(13) My mother always implored me and my brothers to stay united,” he said.
(14) I implore Islamic State to abide by the decisions of their own justice system.
(15) A scheduled expiration of the Patriot Act last year gave critical leverage to legislators who wanted to rein in the bulk collection of domestic phone records, and intelligence officials last month implored Congress to reauthorize the measure wholesale.
(16) The official pounds the lectern, evokes "the dream", invokes the constitution, reminds those attending of his own immigrant roots and implores them to take advantage of everything America has to offer.
(17) We expect Jason will be free to collect this award,” Hughes implored the Iranian government.
(18) Australia’s foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop , has implored the United States to become more engaged in the Indo-Pacific and explicitly referred to the lack of democracy in China, saying history showed “democracy and democratic institutions are essential for nations if they are to reach their economic potential”.
(19) Arab fighters also sent a letter imploring the mojahedin to join them in a battle against US forces.
(20) This is, of course, only once you have finished lapping up the exhaustive travel guides: 48 Hours In Venice implores you to "discover hidden gems and craftsman [sic]" in between aperitifs, which presumably you'll be much in need of after all that work layering statement necklaces.