Example sentences for: insistent

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

  • The stubborn Americans came back again in 1853, with Commodore Matthew Perry bringing for the shogun (whom he mistook for the emperor) a polite but insistent letter from President Millard Fillmore and a promise to return the next year, with a bigger squadron, for a positive response.

  • It plays a note, then a second note, and finally an insistent three-note chord with a sound somewhere between a train whistle and the Canadian Brass.

  • In 1946, the pencil work became heavier and more insistent, the colors more assertive, the nightmare aspects harder to miss.

  • Until very recently, Said has been an insistent voice for Palestinian statehood: He helped to draft the PLO's "Algiers Declaration" of 1988, which linked this aspiration to the recognition of Israel's right to exist.

  • But like a docent at his own retrospective, he's ever insistent that we notice that virtuosity.


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