Example sentences for: insistent

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

  • I blurbed The Kiss . The book scared me, not because it concerns incest or happens to be true but because of the malign figure of the father, who reminded me of the character played by Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter . I also appreciated the drugged cadence of the prose, with a chasm between every two sentences, and the frozen stare of the insistent present tense.

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

  • 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.

  • Lang and Danielle Mitterrand and associated hangers- on were always insistent that the concerts created a climate of tolerance.

  • 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.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast