insist
Example Sentences
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Tennis great Serena Williams insisted Tuesday that she is not planning a return to the court, hours after news broke that she had re-entered the sport’s drug-testing pool.
From Los Angeles Times
Nancy insisted: "The board is with me, the club is with me, and the players are with me."
From BBC
The author also attempted to speak with John Rideout, but he insisted on being paid around $500,000 for his story.
When Columbus’s statue was yanked from Newark, N.J., the city’s mayor insisted that he had no objections to people celebrating Columbus: “We’re just asking that you not make us celebrate him as well.”
But there have continued to be instances of matches finishing well past midnight - which Dr Sikka insists cannot be allowed to be "romanticised".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
