Example sentences for: insistent

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

  • 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.

  • His framing is the least insistent of any major director, which is especially radical in a genre where audiences are accustomed to having their gaze directed.

  • 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.

  • But now that I'm once again a father in spring training with my daughter Jessica, who is insistent on continuing to integrate the Shaker Baseball League (SBL--formerly the Shaker Boys League), a hardball little league that will include her 10-year-old-male, and some female, equals, I find that I must correct Power's mistake, caused by an obviously uniformed conjecture concerning our language as it is used in what was formerly an all-male game.

  • 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.


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