Get to know Beg better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like request or bespeak.
Beg in a sentence
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Beg meaning
- To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
- To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
- To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.
Using Beg
- The main meaning on this page is: To request the help of someone, often in the form of money. | To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat. | To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.
- Useful related words include: request, bespeak, call for, quest.
- In the example corpus, beg often appears in combinations such as: to beg, beg for, beg to.
Context around Beg
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 7 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Beg
- In this selection, "beg" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, yar, ulugh, murad, kaduna, anybody and advanced stand out and add context to how "beg" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and i beg you to and anybody to beg any bigwig. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "beg" sits close to words such as aesthetics, arabian and ark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with beg
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Didn’t they beg for privacy? (6 words)
Anda boleh membeli backpack cover sekiranya beg anda tidak kalis air. (11 words)
If he should beg it would only make sense to beg for power generation purposes…. (15 words)
Sorting out exactly what beg the question means, however, is not always easy—especially in constructions such as beg the question of whether and beg the question of how, where the door is opened to more than one question. (39 words)
Mir Ahmad Shah now discovered that the murder of Yar Beg was instigated by Sulaiman Beg with the object of possessing his wife and advancing against him expelled him from Faizabad of which he took possession himself. (37 words)
Having won this battle, Ulugh Beg advanced toward Herat and massacred its people in 1448, but Ala-ud-Daulah's brother Mirza Abul-Qasim Babur bin Baysonqor came to his aid, defeating Ulugh Beg. (34 words)
Kano, did they beg, Kaduna, did they beg, who begged for their airport to be renovated? (16 words)
Didn’t they beg for privacy? (6 words)
Example sentences (20)
Sorting out exactly what beg the question means, however, is not always easy—especially in constructions such as beg the question of whether and beg the question of how, where the door is opened to more than one question.
If he should beg it would only make sense to beg for power generation purposes….
Kano, did they beg, Kaduna, did they beg, who begged for their airport to be renovated?
I didn’t beg anybody to beg any bigwig to be elected rather I chose to focus on the membership of my erstwhile party for maximum support.
Having won this battle, Ulugh Beg advanced toward Herat and massacred its people in 1448, but Ala-ud-Daulah's brother Mirza Abul-Qasim Babur bin Baysonqor came to his aid, defeating Ulugh Beg.
In 1822 4 brothers under the service of Mir Muhammad Murad Beg rebelled led by Kokan Beg.
In 1844, Mir Yar Beg while shooting was poisoned by Mir Ahmad Shah at the instigation of Sulaiman Beg and died on his return to Fayzabad.
In fact Badakhshan was now contested by again by Mir Yar Beg, Sikandar Shah, Shahzada Mahmud, Abdul Ghazi Khan and Shah Suliman Beg who were in exile at Tashkurghan under protection of Mir Wali.
Mir Ahmad Shah now discovered that the murder of Yar Beg was instigated by Sulaiman Beg with the object of possessing his wife and advancing against him expelled him from Faizabad of which he took possession himself.
Mir Yar Beg was now worried about the rising popularity and power of Mir Muhammad Murad Beg in the region.
Although Kolawole tried to beg for Erekere, who said he would pay, Itele insisted the skit maker should leave.
Amit Munshi had to beg off when he was first introduced to the idea of running an MPM BioImpact stealth player named ReNAgade Therapeutics.
Anda boleh membeli backpack cover sekiranya beg anda tidak kalis air.
And I beg you to do the same; don’t forget about your favourite pub or brewery taproom – it needs you now more than ever.
At the end, all Damian can do is beg his mother not to do this.
Bond villains aren't begging for forgiveness too often, although they might beg for their lives.
Bone-gray ash blankets everything: cars, crops and even the dogs that beg for scraps in the streets.
Buckingham Palace staff had to beg people to stop leaving marmalade sandwiches outside (a nod to her sketch with Paddington Bear) because their offerings were harming the local wildlife.
But the defence said this was “a ridiculous suggestion” and it would have been unrealistic for Jewell simply to back down and beg for mercy.
Didn’t they beg for privacy?
Common combinations with beg
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to beg 61×
- beg for 46×
- beg to 21×
- beg you 19×
- beg the 17×
- and beg 13×
- beg him 9×
- they beg 5×
- would beg 5×
- who beg 5×