It was couched in the most affectionate and tender language, importuning him to return; and depicting, in the darkest colours, the sufferings he must endure if he survived the attempt to reach Quebec.
He isimportuning all the gods for snow, but as yet they don't appear to listen to him.
Agrippa happened at that time to have a boarder in his house, a young fellow of insatiable curiosity, who would never give over importuning his hostess, till at length he obtained from her the forbidden key.
He was always importuning Dora for "a couple of hundred dollars" for a "sure thing.
Therefore I will leave the question of this million-dollar policy and other forms of importuning until the insurance companies offer something in rebuttal.
Whoever knows by experience of the incessant pursuit of business by the important insurance corporations need not be told that a man in my position has had his share of importuning by agents great and small.
Are there bowels in you that are wicked, and will they be wrought upon by an importuning beggar?
Waiters circle among the dancers, importuning them to drink.
He turned a deaf ear to it and to all his importuning crew and went searching for his "strait"; by which steadfastness of purpose he just missed discovering the Pacific Ocean.
He wisely resolved to linger no longer in Spain, importuning for his lost governorship, but to undertake a fourth voyage and find this passage.
It is, this earliest Italian poetry, like the more refined poetry of troubadours and minnesingers, eminently an importuning of highborn but loosely living women.
This morning I gave myself again to prayer, importuning the Lord that He would be pleased to send more means, as so little had come in during the last two days.
Catholic churches and priests form, as usual in all Spanish towns, a prominent feature of the neighborhood; and we are sorry to say that beggars are very importuning and numerous.
Snipe could not bear to go in such shabby attire, but he had no better, and could get none without importuning his mother.
Mr. Longmore again importuning her to know what he had done to occasion his absconding so, said I suppose he has not murdered anybody?
Now your people won't have to be importuning the War Department; the leave shall come from this end of the line.
I want to get back to the regiment before they find out that they were comparatively serious, because the family will be importuning the Secretary of War to send me home on leave.
A well-filled purse jingled in his pocket and now and then he tossed a silver coin to some importuning Indian along the road.
New Orleans was importuning Congress to support it in an Exposition.
He pressed me to tell him what it was troubled me, but I put it off, till at last, importuning me continually, I was forced to form a story, which yet had a plain truth to lay it upon too.
She continued importuning me several days, but it was impossible, I told her, for me to commit the secret to anybody.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "importuning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
