Sentence examples for but begging from inspiring English sources

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

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

Public library officials are all but begging for a reprieve from the worst of the cuts.

As a result, the United States Small Business Administration is all but begging for applicants.

O'Malley used whatever leverage he could muster, all but begging for his support.

Along the way, he ridiculed the enterprise he worked for with a seemingly endless stream of Twitter posts, all but begging to get fired.

Western politicians will all but beg for Chinese investment.

I had all but begged for that part.

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

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

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