Example sentences for: insisted

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

  • 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.

  • Phil Gramm insisted that the Kosovo war "should not have been fought [because] the President [had] never made a convincing case for putting the lives of Americans at risk in a war where we have no vital national interest at stake."

  • 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.

  • But the sources insisted that the Taliban would not hand bin Laden over to the United States, however much it came under pressure to do so.

  • On the morning of his death, he left his bed and insisted on going out to help his neighbor plant daffodils.


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