insistent

Example Sentences

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We’ll take that over the insistent blandness and flatlining performances that “The Faithful” is serving.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

Survival has its own language—quieter than we expect, but no less insistent.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

The allegations were insistent enough for the president of the province of Prussia to bring the matter to the attention of the minister of clerical affairs and culture in Berlin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

"Even when safeguards are in place, it has been proven relatively easy to bypass these if someone is insistent enough on doing so," she said.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

The thin cry burst out again, wiry, insistent “Is it a man?” he cried again, “tell me at least this—is it a man?”

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck