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How to use importunate in a sentence

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Wading further through the crowd, we decline a chorus of importunate hands, each holding out postcards that detail the site's glories.
The strange gentleman is, we learn, one of Felice Charmond's more importunate lovers.
They compounded verbal injury by laying importunate hands on women of our group.
We hector the Turks in the most importunate manner about Cyprus, about the status of minorities, about the Armenian massacre.
God can no longer remain hidden from such an earnest and importunate seeker.
They must be prepared to rival the patience of Job and the persistence of the importunate widow.
For in Cairo, as he writes, jokes are a form of currency: a wisecrack from even the most importunate beggar will win instant reward.
Rest easy, my importunate friends, there is much news: over in California, preparations are afoot.
He became so unreasonably importunate in his addresses to the daughter of one of the clergymen of Aberdeen, that it was found necessary to put him under restraint.
Locals often advise visitors to show their empty palms to monkeys if they are in the preserve and want to avoid their importunate extortion of food.
He is ready and willing to yield to our importunate cries of faith.
So not only did the importunate young man squeeze a few extra minutes out of the eminent philosopher, he also caught, and recorded him, laughing at his guest's foolishness.
And I'll hope you'll forgive this importunate but timely plea.
As Oscar Wilde observed, the personal memoir, even if written for friends and family alone or to satisfy an importunate publisher, is always delightfully self-obsessed.
He warned me with great blows of legs of the arrival of importunate people even before they would cross the threshold of the gate.
In her photographic compositions Elena Willis implicates the interaction of people in the face of a fatality, an importunate event that wrenches them from their daily life.
Failure to consult a notary can have importunate consequences.
He passed his busy days in the midst of noisy, bustling, importunate crowds, yet free from the slightest moral stain, offering help, counsel and comfort to all.
Mr Miller was never stuffy about answering such importunate questions.
This component blocks the undesired and importunate web content such as ad-images, flash banners, clickers, counters and pop-up pages and prevents the dangerous scripts from execution.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Uncle Ulick shook his fist at a particularly importunate beggar who had ventured across the forecourt.
He had never borrowed from a friend or been dunned by an importunate tradesman.
She choked upon an importunate sob and dug nails into the palms of her hands.
What most annoyed the king at this time was the importunate demands of Lubeck.
She prayed as they prayed to-night, so earnest, so importunate, so believing.
His importunate correspondent had proposed to call for him in Newcastle that very day.
Such sentences reveal a Deity who is not only manifest Character, but surgent and importunate Feeling.
Dimmesdale's flock, were alike importunate that he should make trial of the physician's frankly offered skill.
My dear fellow, the A B C of your craft is to dismiss the importunate.
Among these importunate signs was one that had caught the attention of the family by its pictures.
He is the Hearer, the answerer and the Lover of importunate prayer.
It must, however, be allowed that they are not importunate, nor clamorous.
Spoken when the needy are importunate in their cravings, or exacting.
When didst thou rebuke any petitioner with the name of importunate?
At last the feeling on my side became so importunate that I could no longer keep silence.
It was all I could do to keep the importunate beasts at a distance.
Mr. wootton waves him aside as he would do an importunate fly.
Still, his curiosity does not impel him to importunate inquiry.
Godfrey Cass was looking forward to this New Year's Eve with a foolish reckless longing, that made him half deaf to his importunate companion, Anxiety.
Mademoiselle, you will not, I trust, think my eagerness importunate.
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