INSIST in a Sentence
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280 example sentences for INSIST, such as:
1. I will have another glass if you insist.
2. Since you insist, I must amend the letter of credit.
3. In a complex world,to insist upon simplicity is foolish.
4. He insisted these photographs were not art but obscenity.
5. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
2. Since you insist, I must amend the letter of credit.
3. In a complex world,to insist upon simplicity is foolish.
4. He insisted these photographs were not art but obscenity.
5. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
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Meanings and Examples of INSIST
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insist
v. be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
v. beg persistently and urgently
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Before proceeding further, and in order to make ourselves fully understood, let us insist upon one necessary observation.
2 From a still more serious point of view, and one which it is also proper to insist upon here, this war, which wounded the military spirit of France, enraged the democratic spirit.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
3 Provincial," said the man, "if you positively insist upon it, I consent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
4 He added: "I insist upon it that the mother shall treat them well."
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN
5 There exists beneath society, we insist upon this point, and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, the great cavern of evil.
6 And then, we insist upon it, the study of social deformities and infirmities, and the task of pointing them out with a view to remedy, is not a business in which choice is permitted.
7 We will not insist upon this point; this is not the proper place for that.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
8 There, nevertheless, we insist upon it, is life, palpitation, human tremor.
9 And yet, we insist upon the word, people were always welcome there.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
10 Marius, let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark wings which are spread over those in the death agony.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC
11 We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades.
12 His preoccupation must indeed have been very profound for him not to insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ...
13 Certainly, and we insist upon this point, he had not yielded without resistance to that monster, to that infamous angel, to that hideous hero, who enraged almost as much as he amazed him.
14 This reply was too flattering to allow me to insist on his departure.
15 Naturally, she would have to say then that she simply couldn't think of marrying a man when he was engaged to another girl, but he would insist and finally she would let herself be persuaded.
Example Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1 British Airways has used the lure of a free upgrade to Concorde to persuade businessmen to insist on BA premium class tickets.
2 They insist that food are being provided to the Palestinians in ample supplies, and that the only way to weaken Hamas is to maintain the blockade.
3 Fujitsu, Toshiba, HP and Lenovo all insist that their designs are sufficiently different to Dell and Apple, that there is no abnormal risk of fire.
4 Although I do not wish to circumscribe your activities, I must insist that you complete this assignment before you start anything else.
5 I believe deeply in civility, and generally insist upon it at my place.
6 Since you insist, I must amend the letter of credit.
7 I insist on your taking/insist that you take immediate action to put this right.
8 In a complex world,to insist upon simplicity is foolish.
9 Some people we clearly know to think he is wrong, but still insist to think, because it's not alive.
10 I will have another glass if you insist.
11 Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
12 At first he insisted on the accuracy of his account, however, he agreed with what I said.
13 I tried to argue her down,but she still insisted upon doing so.
14 He insisted these photographs were not art but obscenity.
15 An old worker spread his padded coat on the floor and insisted that I lie down for a while.