importune suggests an annoying persistence in trying to break down resistance to a request.
importuning viewers for contributions
Example Sentences
Verb A homeless man begs on that corner every day. children begging strangers for food children begging food from strangers He begged the doctor for medicine. She begged him to read the story again. He begged that she would forgive him. begging a favor of someone He's too proud to beg. “Does your dog know any tricks?” “She knows how to beg.” See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
Enlarge / Apps now need to beg for permission to show notifications. Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2022 Women were not allowed to go to offices but were allowed to beg in front of bakeries for just one piece of bread. From Cnn Opinion, CNN, 12 Aug. 2022 Drunk and despondent, David Santillan called his wife to beg for forgiveness. Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022 Biden is again planning a visit to the Saudi capital of Riyadh to beg the leader of the OPEC cartel for more oil. Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 15 June 2022 And second, your kid is probably going to beg for something cool and eye-catching at back-to-school time. Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day, 15 June 2022 In the show’s seventh episode, Billy takes Royal at gunpoint to a rundown roller rink to beg for forgiveness for trying to kill Autumn. Hunter Ingram, Variety, 6 May 2022 Talibés are forced to beg for money each day, and if their quota is not filled, they can be beaten and starved. Guy Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2022 Of course, this does beg the obvious question:What is the right way to approach marketing during a global crisis? Chris Martin, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022 See More