insist

How To Use insist In A Sentence

• 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.
• 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
• He would insist to his dying day that an arctic wolf had savaged him.
• No, just stylish, insists G.O.D. founder and chief executive Douglas Young.
• He always insisted that it was a girlfriend's idea: he had been planning to become a tiler.
• He insisted the second try - which levelled the scores in injury time - was short of the line.