Sentence examples for beseeching for from inspiring English sources

"beseeching for" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It generally means to make a desperate plea or request for something. For example, "She was standing before the judge, beseeching for leniency in her sentencing."

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While Israel was beseeching for clemency for Pollard, they still refused to even admit Pollard was a spy until 1998, though never admitting to what extent.

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Another cop, a dog fancier who'd cried out but failed to halt the barrage, had tended the fallen dog, who, even greeted with this injury, wanted only to beseech for love with her tongue and snout.

So opera-savvy colleagues were beseeched for insights into "Falstaff," Giuseppe Verdi's last work, which the mayor invoked on Monday night while giving his final speech on the state of the city.

He says the thing he hates most about campaigning is — no surprise — the time away from his wife, Shanti, and two daughters, ages 1 and 3. Asked — beseeched for a telling anecdote not within his rehearsed repertory, he tells of a voter who was grateful that the lottery would pay tuition for her three children.

Cast as the Global Groom, placed on a pedestal, beseeched for his holy thoughts, there was no way to go but down.

When Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke on Tuesday night, she brought up some of the people she met in her thwarted campaign for the nomination, including a young marine beseeching her for better medical care for himself and his comrades, and an uninsured single mother with cancer rearing two autistic children.

Research for a forthcoming Journal of Law & Economics article concludes that, among colleges reporting numbers, the University of South Carolina at Columbia got the most bang for the buck in beseeching Congress for earmarks, those budget goodies secretively dished out by congressmen.

Your April 5 editorial beseeching "Fairness for Ken Starr" took the absolutist position on "the rule of law". While such principles are high-minded and defensible in the abstract, they fail to reflect the reality of criminal jurisprudence.

As Gunther von Hagens hurried out of his exhibit here the other day and hopped into a waiting van, fans thrust programs through the open door, beseeching him for an autograph.

Douglas Durst, one of New York City's biggest real estate developers, has noticed recently that candidates have been beseeching him for contributions at an exasperating pace, as if his business was not building skyscrapers but rather doling out money from some bottomless political piggy bank.

At the Tokyo Dome on Monday as he attempted to run sprints before an exhibition with the Yomiuri Giants, a curtain of T-shirts, jerseys, autograph cards and other paraphernalia was lowered from the stands by fans beseeching him for his autograph.

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