Sample sentences for INSISTENT

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Definition

persistent or continuing or firm — especially in maintaining a view or demanding something

We questioned her repeatedly and she remained insistent that she knew nothing of the event.

insistent = firm and continuing

insistent = persistent or continuing

My hunger was insistent.
White Fang growled and growled with insistent warning.
Jack London -- White Fang

insistent = firm

But there were new threads now, tugging and insistent, which tied her just as firmly to the Tucks.
Natalie Babbitt -- Tuck Everlasting

insistent = demanding

[...insistent tugging brings Tony to the realization of the danger.]
Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim -- Westside Story

insistent = persistent and demanding

They were shocked motionless; the knock was repeated insistently, and in the sudden realization that the door was not locked Rosemary...
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night

insistently = in a persistent or firm manner (demanding to be answered)

insistence = to insist (demand)

On BIFF'S last insistence, WILLY is about to sit.
Arthur Miller -- Death of a Salesman

insistence = demand (firm request)

FIERS. [... in an insistent tone] You've put on the wrong trousers again. What am I to do with you?
Anton Chekhov -- The Cherry Orchard

insistent = firm (demanding)

...the others were being so insistent, and he was curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's responsibility and he could rest.
Franz Kafka -- Metamorphosis

insistent = demanding

But at her son's gentle insistence, Ozhii Nelii gathered enough courage to take the long walk to her mother's camp with her son at her side.
Velma Wallis -- Two Old Women
Rush's insistence on perilous remedies for yellow fever patients was a rare misstep for the energetic doctor.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Fever, 1793
The knock came again, more insistent this time.
Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
HUGO—(with uneasy insistence) What's matter, Larry?
Eugene O'Neill -- The Iceman Cometh
But M. Nioche stared insistently: "I shall stop her!" he softly repeated.
Henry James -- The American
An insistent male voice intruded on my dream.
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Betrayed
What proved unnatural, however, was his insistence that we should go where he wished us to go, and do as he wished us to do.
Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past
He leaned over, reaching out for his audience; he pointed into their souls with an insistent finger.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle

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