Begged [verb]

Meanwhile, Pennsylvania’s cash-strapped public school districts have begged for relief from the excessive tuition bills they must pay to the online schools.

It was a cri de coeur that, given the season, begs comparisons to the Festivus airing of grievances from George Costanza’s father on “Seinfeld” — another older Queens man unable to gracefully accept the nature of the world around him.

A little wine and time make this pot roast tender and flavorfulSo, latkes are something I’ve obsessed over since I was a kid, begging my mom to make them for me year-round.

This year, the epidemiologists are begging us to stay home and celebrate Thanksgiving only among members of the same household.

Weeks later, in an emotional video shared by the city of Arlington, the family is begging others to avoid gathering with anyone outside their immediate household.

Madame Ratignolle begged Robert to accompany her to the house; she complained of cramp in her limbs and stiffness of the joints.

Which latter circumstance he begged Mr. Perker to note, with a glowing countenance and many marks of indignation.

At last he lay upon the floor, while around her, Mrs. Merley and the other girl begged and beseeched.

So my mother begged me to slip into the Rooms, with what was left, and try to get something back.

She would not dare to choose, and begged that Mademoiselle Reisz would please herself in her selections.