insistent
Example Sentences
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“He was very insistent that I gift you a new plant. And it had to be one bursting with bright new flowers.”
From Literature
His fur was hot from the insistent sun.
From Literature
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.
But what kind of a Jew, with my waning attachment to ritual observance and insistent questioning of Orthodox belief?
“The Jewish theater in Amsterdam was broken into last night. Forty Jews were rescued. One of them—a young woman—was most insistent that Nollie know: ‘Annaliese is free.’”
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
