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She began to importune school trustees as soon as she learned of the problem.importune = beg insistently or urge repeatedly
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I importune you to help them.importune = beg or urge
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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)importuned = urged
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Why do you importune me about her! (source)importune = ask
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"Rob, this is Helen at Base Camp," Wilton importuned, sounding as if she was on the brink of tears, "You think about that little baby of yours.† (source)importuned = begged insistently or urged repeatedly
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Yossarian whirled and seized the chaplain by the shirt front in an importuning grip.† (source)importuning = begging insistently or repeatedly urging
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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)
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Meanwhile, Sophie and I living on the modest plantation in dignified seclusion, my reputation growing, the author himself being increasingly importuned by the media but steadfastly refusing all interviews.† (source)importuned = begged insistently or urged repeatedly
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Hema realized that in importuning every deity she could think of, she had somehow neglected to appeal to Sister Mary Joseph Praise.† (source)importuning = begging insistently or repeatedly urging
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He importunes, persecutes one, and levies a regular tax on all travellers.† (source)importunes = begs insistently or urges repeatedly
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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)
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But the firmness gradually faded away before her incessant importunings and tantrums.† (source)
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And at the same time I fear to importune it too much, because I do not know what might happen then.† (source)
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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)importuned = begged insistently or urged repeatedly
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Robert could have put an end to his importuning for good with one firm "No," but the notion of conquering the Summer Isles had appealed to her drunken lout of a husband.† (source)importuning = begging insistently or repeatedly urging
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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)importunes = urges repeatedly
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