INSISTENCE in a Sentence

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1. It ought to be cut down, she insisted.
2. I didn't really want to go but he insisted.
3. He stubbornly insisted on doing it all himself.
4. We finally insisted that he seek psychiatric help.
5. These gayeties of a giant are worthy of insistence.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSISTENCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
insistence
 n.  continual and persistent demands
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But his silent, brooding insistence that it should be so was hard for Clifford to bear up against.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  "Yes, you should try more," echoed the Grandfer with insistence, as if he had been the first to make the suggestion.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
3  The letters of the name of Dublin lay heavily upon his mind, pushing one another surlily hither and thither with slow boorish insistence.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
5  These gayeties of a giant are worthy of insistence.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
6  Louis XIII was struck with this insistence, and began to fancy that this recommendation concealed some mystery.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 17 BONACIEUX AT HOME
7  To tell them that she felt ashamed for herself and for them would be to betray her agitation, while to decline their offers to dress her would prolong their banter and insistence.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
8  It ought to be cut down, she insisted.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
9  Graybeards in the Home Guard and members of the state militia, safe in Atlanta, insisted they could have managed the campaign better and drew maps on tablecloths to prove their contentions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  "But it's got a solid-gold hilt," insisted the little trooper.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
11  She insisted she was strong and did more work even than Dilcey but Scarlett knew she was sick.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  They had all made her welcome at Mimosa and had insisted on giving, not selling, her the seed corn.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
13  The Tarletons insisted that the girls stay for dinner, saying they had so few guests these days and wanted to hear all the news.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
14  Scarlett had insisted on that and he had given in, though reluctantly, for he would have liked his sister and his brother-in-law from Jonesboro to be with him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  "Scarlett ought to be in bed," insisted Mrs. Tarleton, running her eyes over her with the expert air of one who calculated a pregnancy to the last minute of its length.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
Example Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
16  The Government has insisted that confidence is needed before the economy can improve.
17  My family insisted that I should not give in, but stay and fight.
18  The guy I was sitting next to on the plane insisted on telling me his life story.
19  He stubbornly insisted on doing it all himself.
20  One insensitive official insisted on seeing her husband's death certificate.
21  The owner insisted on Cool Ground running in the Gold Cup.
22  He insisted that his relationship with the duchess was purely professional.
23  I didn't really want to go but he insisted.
24  We finally insisted that he seek psychiatric help.
25  Workers insisted the new system was too inflexible.
26  The balance performed by the Shaolin monks have insisted to inspire many Hong Kong and Hollywood martial arts movies.
27  He insisted on changing front bumper of the vehicle after accident.
28  Congress insisted on an exclusion clause for seventeen-year-olds.
29  I dropped the Ann from my name to defy my mother, who had insisted I be called by the refined name of Carole Ann, not plain old Carole.
30  Blair memorably described the continent as a scar on the conscience of the world and insisted that the international community could heal it.