insist

How To Use insist In A Sentence

• But it is hard to sustain that insistence on the preservation of the Catholic tradition on the one hand with a total insistence on the diminution of a Protestant tradition on the other.
• I've given you the password to my heart in all its anagrammatic permutations; but you seem to insist this is nothing but a start; so herewith, at last comes the story of my first puppy— Spill
• Despite the inherent inexactness of reproduction cost estimates, he insisted that their economic importance was such that they could not be ignored when they markedly differed from actual cost figures.
• Stay and have lunch. I insist!
• Some people we clearly know to think he is wrong, but still insist to think, because it's not alive.
• My chest begins to hurt with more insistency, a couple of coughs rippling through me; there's no time for that now though, as my mind cries out in urgency.
• She insists her employers are unconcerned that she is apparently about to be sued for libel. Times, Sunday Times
• He tried to refuse but she insisted so much that he gave in. Times, Sunday Times
• Over Fate of Georgia, Provinces With Russian forces appearing to hunker down in Georgia, U.S. and European officials now face a pricklier challenge: Moscow's insistence that it has the right to help break up the country. U.S.-Russia Relations Turn Cold
• But she insisted she was not tempted to follow in their footsteps. The Sun