Example sentences for: beg

How can you use “beg” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It appears that millions of welfare mothers and children will simply be cut off--unable to get or hold jobs, and left to beg from relatives and strangers, to steal what they can, even to sleep on the streets, depending on how much Calcutta-style misery the taxpayers are willing to tolerate.

  • I beg to differ: Her dignity could be damaged only by doing commercials for a company that sells sinks.

  • I have no doubt that the right explanation of this phrase is that given at the latter reference [July 13], and not the one suggested by myself, which I beg leave to withdraw.

  • Assignments in black studies have filtered down to the high-school, junior-high, and even elementary-school level (and remember the black liturgical occasions we now have on the calendar that beg for special schoolchild reports of one sort or another: the King holiday, Black History Month, Black Music Month, Kwanzaa, Malcolm X's birthday, Juneteenth), and while not every school does all of this, most schools must do some of this.

  • Had I ever noticed that, I cannot say that it would have kept me awake nights wondering and worrying who Hommy-Beg might be: I would assume it was a nickname for someone close to Stoker, possibly a private nickname known only to the two of them, and I would have continued to nod off.


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