How do you use Insist in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like importune or beg, plus the exact meaning.
Insist in a sentence
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Insist meaning
- To hold up a claim emphatically.
- To demand continually that something happen or be done; to reiterate a demand despite requests to abandon it.
- To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).
Using Insist
- The main meaning on this page is: To hold up a claim emphatically. | To demand continually that something happen or be done; to reiterate a demand despite requests to abandon it. | To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).
- Useful related words include: importune, beg, implore, pray.
- In the example corpus, insist often appears in combinations such as: insist that, insist on, to insist.
Context around Insist
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Insist
- In this selection, "insist" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cummings, officials, pickleballers, humans and rozzi stand out and add context to how "insist" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and gregory insist rozzi also and and some insist you keep. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "insist" sits close to words such as align, insects and pad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with insist
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And some insist you keep the tags on your purchase or any return is void. (15 words)
Both sides insist the other initiated the initial volley of gunfire that killed four agents and six sectarians. (18 words)
Allies of Cummings insist he never used the phrase, but it was seen within Whitehall as a declaration of war. (20 words)
A proposal for a big set of pickleball courts at Richmond’s Craneway Pavilion has been sent back to the drawing board by local and state regulators, but the pickleballers insist they’ll revise the plan and are hopeful for approval. (41 words)
Although Nate will think it’s important for Victor to take a leave of absence and get treated at a private facility, Adam Newman (Mark Grossman) will insist that’s too risky and will feel confident the news would leak. (40 words)
At a gathering with Portuguese charity workers Friday morning, Pope Francis went off-script to insist that Christian love must be tangibly lived out in the world, and not remain a figment of people’s fantasies. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
And they work because there are public officials who insist on resisting political pressure, who insist on doing their job, and who thus protect the institutions of government.
Akbari’s devastated family deny he was a spy and insist he is the victim of an internal power struggle within the regime.
Allies of Cummings insist he never used the phrase, but it was seen within Whitehall as a declaration of war.
All it would take would be Amazon or some other big company that uses HP/Dell/whatever servers to insist on support and the ball will get rolling quickly.
Although Nate will think it’s important for Victor to take a leave of absence and get treated at a private facility, Adam Newman (Mark Grossman) will insist that’s too risky and will feel confident the news would leak.
Although Will may want to make sure this is truly what his husband wants, Sonny will insist he’s all in on this new chapter.
And I’m a person who, you can tell even by my hobbies I have, I insist until I succeed.
And some insist you keep the tags on your purchase or any return is void.
And though New England as a potential destination, it would be hard to envision Hopkins landing with the Patriots if he’d insist on being given a new, lucrative contract.
And though officials insist humans will always be in control, experts say advances in data-processing speed and machine-to-machine communications will inevitably relegate people to supervisory roles.
A proposal for a big set of pickleball courts at Richmond’s Craneway Pavilion has been sent back to the drawing board by local and state regulators, but the pickleballers insist they’ll revise the plan and are hopeful for approval.
A sore point here were efforts by the Soviets to insist that countries such as Australia be banned from pursuing their own nuclear program.
As the United States recently won important concessions by insisting that China’s companies adhere to accounting standards, so should governments insist on compliance from Beijing in global health and other critical areas.
At a gathering with Portuguese charity workers Friday morning, Pope Francis went off-script to insist that Christian love must be tangibly lived out in the world, and not remain a figment of people’s fantasies.
Back in Iran, authorities said last week that they had resumed morality police patrols to deal with women who "insist" on violating the dress code.
Berlant may insist she’s “niche for life”, but the secret’s out: she’s a bona fide mainstream star.
Both sides insist the other initiated the initial volley of gunfire that killed four agents and six sectarians.
But both Cutler and Gregory insist Rozzi also promised to change his party registration, something Rozzi said he does not currently plan to do.
But she gives him a chance, as so many men insist is something women should do, and agrees to go out with him.
But the woman’s defense team insist her boyfriend was beaten and attacked by a dog at the home owned at the time by fellow Boston police officer, Brian Albert.
Common combinations with insist
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- insist that 60×
- insist on 42×
- to insist 37×
- they insist 20×
- insist they 15×
- insist the 13×
- and insist 12×
- will insist 10×
- who insist 9×
- insist he 9×