Example sentences for: insistent

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

  • The assistant shoemaker is another of Malamud's weirdly insistent, lonely souls--impelled, who knows why, to devote himself to a hopeless love; still wincing from the horrors of Europe, which he has not entirely escaped; inarticulate, yet bursting with passion, if only his boss, the master shoemaker, will deign to listen.

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

  • In his insistent quest for "meaning in life," Bettelheim was nearly impossible to pin down, and the addition of so many slippery stories certainly doesn't help.

  • Through time, the dots become progressively larger and more insistent, emerging from their role as background fillers to dominate the entire canvas in a dizzying field of scintillations.

  • A decade earlier, the British government led by Margaret Thatcher was facing severe economic troubles and insistent calls for a change of policy to deal with them.


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