Sentence examples for but beg from inspiring English sources

Western politicians will all but beg for Chinese investment.

They look for work there, he says, but beg when they can find nothing else.

In normal times, small parties must all but beg the networks for coverage, said Pierre Royan, a spokesman for Nathalie Arthaud, a candidate from the Workers' Struggle party.

Brothers, don't join our brotherhood, but beg God's grace for those who did.Prince Jesus, Lord of all, that day don't give us up to Satan's sway, to squeeze our souls for what he's due.

People are happy to visit a friend's way-up-north home in the winter when they can ski or snowshoe but beg off in the summer when they'd prefer lower elevations — like the deep end of another friend's pool.

For years, Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. of Charleston, S.C., has done everything but beg the South Carolina Legislature to stop embarrassing the state and lower the Confederate battle flag from atop the state Capitol.

I wanted to beg, but begging, I knew, was self-sabotage.

I had all but begged for that part.

But the judges issued an obviously self-contradictory ruling that all but begged to be appealed.

Factory bosses are now all but begging their female workers to remain.

The discerning audience, standing and shouting, all but begged for an encore.