Example sentences for: begs

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

  • In 1973 Doubleday wisely reissued The Young Visiters , and it got a rave review by Alan Friedman in The New York Times . He called it “a tiny novel that begs comparison with giants: Tolstoy's War and Peace , Flaubert's Sentimental Education , and Lawrence's Women in Love may be bigger, but The Young Visiters too manages to contain and display, more gracefully than the giants, an entire civilization.”

  • Which begs the question: Why do people (myself included) continue to rely on (and delight in) products that so frequently prove unreliable?

  • It may be symptomatic of such losses that today the adverb of choice is clearly, used even more often than the hucksters' Free! , and, since clarity of expression and thought is seldom evident, this frequent repetition of clearly can be seen as a kind of mantra, a prayer that begs our indulgence, asks us to take the wish for the deed, and, what is far worse, seeks to convict us of ignorance and stupidity should we look elsewhere for enlightenment.

  • Michiko Kakutani (the New York Times ) begs to differ, complaining that the director's "meticulous, detail-oriented approach has sucked all spontaneity and passion from the picture."

  • In an earlier scene, he seemed a figure from a Nazi-era movie: a Jew obsessed with a German woman, in this case Oskar's mother, whom he begs on bended knee to run away with him to London.


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