[ US /ˌɪnˈsɪstənt/ ]
[ UK /ɪnsˈɪstənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. demanding attention
    regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous
    clamant needs
    insistent hunger
    a crying need
    an instant need
  2. repetitive and persistent
    the bluejay's insistent cry
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How To Use insistent In A Sentence

  • Although we always want things, childhood is the time when we are most insistent.
  • But the Swedish startup has been particularly insistent on coming to the U.S. market with a freemium, not paid-only, model. told the U. K.'s Telegraph last week that the company is paying the label royalties per user in only two countries, the U.K. and Spain. VentureBeat
  • Stalin was insistent that the war would be won and lost in the machine shops.
  • There was an insistent knock on my door.
  • I can't begin to describe the horrors being perpetrated by the DJ's, their insistent attempts to incite a conga line, or the, um, "dancing" of the patrons who -- despite clearly being the offspring and younger relatives that the publisher folks had passed on their tickets to -- managed to make your dad's elbow-jiggle and hip-shoogle look like The Moves Of The Groove. Archive 2006-10-01
  • These were the Marshall Plan days, which sadly ended in the '70s, and the US became even more kind of insistent on pushing these wrong policies on the developing countries and some other countries. Democracy Now!
  • Toure sounds outrageously laid-back, but the insistent rhythmic pulse in his music is hypnotic and irresistible.
  • The undeniable utility of the canoe is attenuated by its insistent lack of comfort. Times, Sunday Times
  • Every third dog causes me to hyperventilate and produce insistent grunting sounds.
  • Why are you so insistent that we leave tonight?
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