INSIST in a Sentence

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280 example sentences for INSIST, such as:

1. I didn't really want to go but he insisted.
2. He stubbornly insisted on doing it all himself.
3. We finally insisted that he seek psychiatric help.
4. The owner insisted on Cool Ground running in the Gold Cup.
5. My family insisted that I should not give in, but stay and fight.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSIST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
insist
 v.  stand or rest; find support; take a stand and refuse to give way; be persistent
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.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
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...
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...
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
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.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS
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.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
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
8  There, nevertheless, we insist upon it, is life, palpitation, human tremor.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
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
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
11  We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY
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 ...
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.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
14  This reply was too flattering to allow me to insist on his departure.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 25 PORTHOS
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
16  They insisted that a guaranteed supply of Chinese food was written into their contracts.
17  He insisted that the conflict would continue until conditions were met for a ceasefire.
18  Despite my attempts to get him to call me by my Christian name he insisted on addressing me as "Mr Kennedy".
19  He insisted on describing his operation in graphic detail while we were eating lunch.
20  She insisted on telling me every single detail of what they did to her in hospital.
21  She insisted that every scandalous detail of the story had been manufactured.
22  The Government has insisted that confidence is needed before the economy can improve.
23  My family insisted that I should not give in, but stay and fight.
24  The guy I was sitting next to on the plane insisted on telling me his life story.
25  He stubbornly insisted on doing it all himself.
26  One insensitive official insisted on seeing her husband's death certificate.
27  The owner insisted on Cool Ground running in the Gold Cup.
28  He insisted that his relationship with the duchess was purely professional.
29  I didn't really want to go but he insisted.
30  We finally insisted that he seek psychiatric help.