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Example sentences for "insistently"

Lexicographically close words:
insistance; insisted; insistence; insistency; insistent; insisting; insists; insnare; insnared; insnaring
  1. In the more spiritualistic monotheistic religions, while the power of God has been insistently reiterated, there has been an increasing emphasis upon the divine goodness.

  2. Divinity has, again, quite universally been recognized as exerting over the individual a compelling power, and of insistently arousing his veneration.

  3. She had at first thought of availing herself for the day of the car so insistently pressed upon her; but she was not yet quite sure of Brennon, the chauffeur.

  4. It roused in her a passion for subjugation, an instinct for reprisals which sought insistently to reverse the original roles.

  5. The Bureau is convinced that no feature of the immigration question so insistently demands public attention and effective action.

  6. Sidenote: Demands Immediate Remedy] It is, however, convinced that no feature of the immigration question so insistently demands public attention and effective action.

  7. It had rained, dully miserable, insistently all day long.

  8. Susan--perhaps chiefly because Etta protested so insistently about her unsullied purity--had her doubts.

  9. He lifted her arms, and because they were pressing insistently down, squirmed out from beneath them.

  10. A second had gone by--no more--the knocking still sounded insistently on the door.

  11. The revolver edged insistently a little farther across the desk--and Mittel, picking up a pen, wrote feverishly.

  12. He'll simply, he'll insistently have lied.

  13. He'll simply, he'll insistently have lied?

  14. If it is his weakness that his theory of life is overstrenuous, one-sided and out of date, it is his strength that he has opinions of his own and that he is willing to face the problems that insistently confront us to-day.

  15. He devoured their details, his heart searching in them for the mystery of Rachel and finding only a deeper emptiness--insistently naked bodies of nymphs lying like newly bathed housemaids amid stiff park sceneries.

  16. In the glare of the sun and sand her body seemed insistently unfamiliar.

  17. Among these is the name of John Randolph of Roanoke,--most insistently cantankerous of Southerners--who left a will freeing all his slaves on grounds of human right.

  18. In fact, he preached the gospel of the nightgown and the toothbrush as insistently as he did the gospel of work and simplicity.

  19. That burned through to the light--sounded on insistently through the confusion of wreck, even as that violin sounds through this hell of noises and disorder--the great unsilenced chord!

  20. Then, out of the page arose insistently the one sentence that did mean something more, the new link in a chain of definite conclusion.

  21. She was very tender, very thoughtful, insistently cheerful, as though determined that her own ill-fortune should not affect the rest of the household.

  22. He made her insistently conscious of her sex.

  23. Labors, of an urgent and sacred character, claim insistently our undivided attention during the opening years of this new epoch which we have entered.

  24. Automatically but insistently he silently indicated his rejection of any offers at intervention.

  25. The brothers Ricardi insistently demanded that the game should continue.

  26. Before his closed eyes rose insistently the picture of a smoky cabin with a puncheon floor and of a girl upon whose cheeks and temples flickered orange and vermilion lights.

  27. The seriousness was below the surface, but insistently depressing.

  28. There was another matter that called more insistently for her attention.

  29. It is, at any rate in its more intense phases, insistently organic; we took the testimony of language on p.

  30. It was yellow; it was long; it was billowy; it was insistently and recklessly regal.

  31. Virginia could scarcely look at the lace, so insistently did he keep waving the watch before her.

  32. Insistently the memory of her parting words was with him, and he knew, in spite of his brutal and furious efforts to condemn her, that love was not dead and that hope still lived.

  33. The bulging packet seemed to press against Mayo's ribs, insistently hinting at its power to help.

  34. How could I tell such a man as he was, of one who had entered my life as insistently as a flash of light, illumining all that had hitherto been dark!

  35. This thought pressed itself insistently home to my mind.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insistently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.