desperately beg

Frequency: 7.512.0 per million words

To beg with a sense of extreme urgency and hopelessness.

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Examples (10)

  • She started to desperately beg for another chance.
  • The captured spy desperately begged his captors for mercy.
  • If you don't save now, you might have to desperately beg for financial help later.
  • He was on his knees, desperately begging the doctor to do something.
  • I had to desperately beg my boss not to fire me after the huge mistake.
  • Lost in the desert, the hiker desperately begged for a drop of water.
  • With tears streaming down her face, she desperately begged him to stay.
  • The failing business had to desperately beg investors for a bailout.
  • He desperately begged the judge for a lighter sentence.
  • The villagers desperately begged for an end to the drought.