"beg explanation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize that something needs to be explained. For example, "Her sudden absence from work begs explanation."
Didn't it seem to beg explanation, how happy the three of us — " "It wasn't strange," I insisted, and surely I was right almost by definition.
Here are some notable omissions that may beg explanation: DENISE HUXTABLE (married a sailor); BAY CITY ROLLERS (by the time they got to TV, they were over); THE FONZ (except for the year he wore a wind breaker, I just don't buy it); MARY TYLER MOORE (almost, but just too... nice); ANGELA CHASE (almost, but too... chaste); and RALPH FURLEY (as far as I know, Hipsters and toupees don't mix).
As sex-biased dispersal in long-lived species cannot consistently prevent encounters between unfamiliar kin, inbreeding remains a threat and mechanisms to avoid it beg explanation.
As sex-biased dispersal cannot consistently prevent kin encounters, particularly in long-lived species, inbreeding between unfamiliar kin remains a real threat and carries potentially disastrous fitness consequences [ 8- 10]; consequently, mechanisms to avoid it beg explanation.
Many things on Mars that begged explanation suddenly make sense in light of the new paradigm, said Bouley.
Waters and Duerson bookend a remarkable shift in the understanding of football brain trauma: four years after a few positive tests begged explanation, questions mainly surround the absence of negatives.
The most moving thing she said was, 'When I was little, I often wished I was an only child, but now that I am one I really miss my sister.' " In such mysterious ways do the lives of children copy their parents, begging explanation if not a meaning.
This is a stunning turnaround, one that begs explanation, particularly since Microsoft remains a company with enviable financials.
The narrator introduces each letter with words that beg parental explanation ("Gallantry! Gusto!"), so Numberlys leaves room for parents in the nighttime reading experience.
The disclosures beg more explanation, said Mercer Bullard, a former assistant chief counsel at the S.E.C. who heads Fund Democracy, a shareholder advocacy group.
Avoid using solid facts in your topic sentence, unless they are particularly engaging or they beg further explanation.
