English example sentences with "insistent"

The children were insistent about our taking them to the movies.

In the Netherlands, if a child is too insistent on asking for a cookie, he might be punished and get no cookie.

The salesman was insistent to the end.

She was very insistent.

He was very insistent.

Tom was quite insistent.

Tom was very insistent.

You're too insistent.

In an insistent voice, he asked his brother to hand over the letter and he died.

Why are you so insistent on going with me?

Tom was most insistent.

Urgency is the insistent immediate future, the future in the process of making itself the present.

I was very insistent.

Sami's insistent calls drained Layla's phone battery.

You were pretty insistent.

Tom was too insistent.

It is important to sometimes listen to others' points of view instead of being so insistent of your own.

"You were so insistent that I make you a cup of coffee, but it's been sitting there untouched for half an hour!" "Oh, I completely forgot. Sorry!"

Ziri was insistent on pressing forward.

Children diagnosed with gender dysphoria are persistent, insistent, and consistent in their gender identity.

And it is a mysterious, wonderful thing this character, this cachet of a great city; the charm of Paris or the grandeur of London, the glittering stillness of Venice or the insistent glory of eternal Rome.

Tom was insistent.

He felt the sun very hot upon his shoulders, and he heard the harsh, insistent jarring of a tern that hovered and circled with forked tail and sharp white wings in the sunlight just above their heads; but all the time he stood staring into the good old gentleman's face.

She's very insistent, isn't she?