desperately beg
Frequency: 7.512.0 per million words
To beg with a sense of extreme urgency and hopelessness.
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- 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.