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Example sentences for: importuning

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A government that cannot resist the importuning of any special interest or union, that lacks both the will and the talent to reform itself.
If they're lucky, Mr. Moneybags returns the call, but usually by that time the importuning politician is back in his Capitol office.
I suppose that Miss Lonelyhearts should count as West's masterpiece, due to the fantastic procession of importuning advice-hounds that traipses across its pages--a procession of battered wives, crippled cuckolded husbands, syphilitic children, rape victims, and deformed teen-agers whose sufferings could break your heart--except that West's demeanor makes the whole thing slightly funny, as in a sick joke.