Sample Sentences for
insistent
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    But there were new threads now, tugging and insistent, which tied her just as firmly to the Tucks.  (source)
    insistent = demanding
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    Several women dressed in black came to the well for water, but the boy would speak to none of them, despite the Englishman's insistence.  (source)
    insistence = repeated requests
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    [...insistent tugging brings Tony to the realization of the danger.]  (source)
    insistent = persistent and demanding
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    White Fang growled and growled with insistent warning.  (source)
    insistent = firm
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    At the insistence of friends...  (source)
    insistence = to insist (demand)
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    They were shocked motionless; the knock was repeated insistently, and in the sudden realization that the door was not locked Rosemary...  (source)
    insistently = in a persistent or firm manner (demanding to be answered)
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    Hurstwood almost exclaimed out loud at the insistency of this thing.†  (source)
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    FIERS. [... in an insistent tone] You've put on the wrong trousers again. What am I to do with you?  (source)
    insistent = firm (demanding)
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    But his father always kept a mustache, at his mother's insistence.†  (source)
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    The number words pounded insistently against Meg's brain.†  (source)
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    To Lily, always inspirited by the prospect of showing her beauty in public, and conscious tonight of all the added enhancements of dress, the insistency of Trenor's gaze merged itself in the general stream of admiring looks of which she felt herself the centre.†  (source)
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    He held the capsule out to me, insistent.†  (source)
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    Was her insistence that "WICKED is good" finally a thing of the past?†  (source)
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