insist
IPA: ɪnsˈɪst
verb
- (with on or upon or (that + indicative)) To hold up a claim emphatically.
- (sometimes with on or upon or (that + subjunctive)) To demand continually that something happen or be done; to reiterate a demand despite requests to abandon it.
- (obsolete, chiefly geometry) To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).
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Examples of "insist" in Sentences
- The majors insist it's the latter.
- The skeptics are insistent about this.
- The insistence of Japan is contradicted.
- They insist that they were never amorous.
- They insist that they have reserved first.
- They insist that his behavior was loathsome.
- Insisting that the child completes the homework.
- For the reasons, it is actually contradicting your insistence.
- But to continue to insist that she is not notable is imprudent.
- What he insists and what she insists are actually the same opinion.
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