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• The public backlash to the proposal was quick and insistent.From the entry backlash
• There is no more purposeful, insistent and mind-alteringly beautiful thing than this heavenly signature.2022, Jason Potter, Amatoria. From the entry alteringly
• Only some insistent pleading (materteral rather than avuncular) had changed their mind.2004, S[aif] Rahman, “Pilgrim Isles [A Kindness at Random]”, in Archipelago, [United Kingdom]: Twenty First Century Publishers, →ISBN…. From the entry materteral
• Feeling the crush of gravity again, the insistent tug on limbs and jowls and eyelashes.2004, Wil McCarthy, Lost in Transmission (Sci-Fi), Random House, →ISBN. From the entry squozen
• But through this insistent rhythm and rhyme, there are only questions and parenthetical pauses, interruptions and lingerings.2000, David S. Reynolds, A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman, page 73. From the entry lingering
• I’d be very demanding and insistent one minute and very sympathetic and supportive the next.1980, Hal Aigner, Faint Trails: An Introduction to the Fundamentals of Adult Adoptee/birth Parent Reunification Searches, Paradigm Press…. From the entry good cop-bad cop
• The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 1, in The Subtle Minotaur. From the entry melody
• Yet there began to be insistent tuggings as if from a dream that could not be recalled.1951, Raymond F. Jones, Renaissance. From the entry tugging
• Spinola," he demanded, tumbling down from his perch and holding out an insistent hand.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry I.O.U.
• Yet, for all the earthbound introspection and insistent maturity, Mr.2017 May 11, Joe Coscarelli, “Harry Styles Opens Up, Slightly, About Going Solo With a Rock Edge”, in The New York Times. From the entry megafamous
• He was so insistent on this point that a friend she mentioned it to put a bug in her ear.2014, Charles Lachman, Footsteps in the Snow, page 246. From the entry put a bug in someone's ear
• Now Freda is a beautiful name, but to this day I am glad my bataa was so insistent.2009, Princess Kasune Zulu, Warrior Princess, IVP Books, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry Freda
• Youth violence represents an insistent, angry wake-up call to every parent, every teacher, every religious leader, every student.1997 December 6, Bill Clinton, Presidential Radio Address. From the entry wake-up call
• So insistent is the presence of money in Newport that the mind springs ineluctably to the raw beginnings of it.1968, Joan Didion, “The Seacoast of Despair”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem. From the entry ineluctably
• The snowfall had changed again, the flakes larger now and less insistent; they had a buoyant and spumescent quality.1957, John Bell Clayton, The Strangers Were There: Selected Stories, Macmillan, page 79. From the entry spumescent
• There's that telephone-bell again." From time to time during and after lunch the high, insistent ring had summoned the Professor.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry telephone-bell
• Abstract as the sun's insistent care, warmth's illusion burning memory's glass until you step outside into the zero chill — feel this bond become as frail as winter's grass.2014, Catherine Owen, Designated Mourner, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry zero chill
• I became gripped by a quiet, unwonted but insistent urge to know a little more about these matters and to understand above all how people figured them out.2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything: Black Swan, page 23. From the entry mere
• And according to an insistent story, Vince MacLean, a formal provincial Liberal leader and prodigious trougher running in Sydney-Victoria, was slapped in the face by a woman at the door.1997, The Canadian Forum, volume 76, page 10. From the entry trougher
• More than any other urban type, the flaneur suggests the contradictions of the modern city, caught between the insistent mobility of the present and the visible weight of the past.1994 October, Priscilla Ferguson, “3 The Flâneur: The City and Its Discontents”, in Paris As Revolution, page 80. From the entry flaneur
• From the middle of the insistent fisherfolk, Maudlin Trowker, a seawife who had arrayed Nelda for the Briding, stepped up to her and put a tender hand upon her shoulder.1994, Robin Jarvis, “The Horngarth”, in The Whitby Child (Whitby; 3), Hemel Hempstead, Herts.: Macdonald Young Books, published 1995…. From the entry seawife

Meaning of insistent

1. adjective Standing or resting on something.
2. adjective Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
3. adjective Extorting attention or notice; coercively staring or prominent; vivid; intense.

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How do you use insistent in a sentence?

Insistent is used as an adjective. For example: “The public backlash to the proposal was quick and insistent.”

What is a short sentence with insistent?

“The public backlash to the proposal was quick and insistent.”

What does insistent mean?

Insistent means standing or resting on something.