Example sentences for: insisted

How can you use “insisted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Legal Services Corporation insisted upon the changes, according to its spokesman Eric Kleiman because the New York program's structure is "completely anomalous" in that there are "two degrees of separation" between the federal corporation and the programs actually delivering civil legal services.

  • The music preceded the title, he insisted, and it would be wrong to hear nuclear-age despair in the clangor of bows being bounced and scraped on the strings, of fingers tapping on wood, or of the siren wails produced by floods of sliding glissandi.

  • I'd been trained in the old medical school style: my instructors had insisted that patients could not be trusted to understand or manage complex medical matters.

  • Lamberth insisted that this sentence contradicted indisputable evidence that private citizens attended the working groups, and that some of them played supervisory roles.

  • It is not surprising that my first exposure to non-Brits was in France, where I soon reconciled myself to a Gallic attack on my personal hygiene when they insisted on addressing me as Miss Your Soap, subtly intoned, I always thought, with an interrogatory inflexion.


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