Sample Sentences for

importune

(editor-reviewed)

Billy did not want to see what happened next, and a clerk importuned him to come over and see some really hot stuff they kept under the counter for connoisseurs.  (source) Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969

And at the same time I fear to importune it too much, because I do not know what might happen then.†  (source) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929

But I will no longer importune my young cousin.†  (source) Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813

This would help to abate the expected protests from the Irish community over the police chief's dismissal; and since the city would underwrite the costs, and the alderman could use the construction to support his bid for mayor in the next election, it would importune neither man.†  (source) Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place, 1982

Charles and Hal begged her to get off and walk, pleaded with her, entreated, the while she wept and importuned Heaven with a recital of their brutality.†  (source) Jack London, The Call of the Wild, 1903

Yossarian whirled and seized the chaplain by the shirt front in an importuning grip.†  (source) Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

He importunes, persecutes one, and levies a regular tax on all travellers.†  (source) Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, 1856

Say that she be; yet Valentine, thy friend, Survives, to whom, thyself art witness, I am betroth'd; and art thou not asham'd To wrong him with thy importunacy?†  (source) William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1591

But the firmness gradually faded away before her incessant importunings and tantrums.†  (source) Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, 1936

The term for which Edmond had engaged to serve on board The Young Amelia having expired, Dantes took leave of the captain, who at first tried all his powers of persuasion to induce him to remain as one of the crew, but having been told the history of the legacy, he ceased to importune him further.†  (source) Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

She wouldn't understand the hint, but followed me to a sideboard, where I went to lay my bonnet, and importuned me in a whisper to give her directly what I had brought.†  (source) Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, 1846

Naked, peach-ripe, chestnut hair flowing across her creamy breasts, desirable beyond utterance, she approached me where I lay stiff as a dagger, importuning me with words delectably raunchy and lewd.†  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

I have almost forgotten you since: other ideas have driven yours from my head; but to-night I am resolved to be at ease; to dismiss what importunes, and recall what pleases.  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847