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How to use insistently in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word insistently? Here are some examples.

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The archeological discoveries of the time insistently cropped up throughout the exhibition.
Who are the mysterious prisoners that clamour insistently at the edges of otherwise benign dreams?
Fortunately, many documentary makers of all generations have been insistently trying to fill in the gaps.
These huge questions have been circulating insistently through the art world of late.
By gently but insistently telling you to slow down, the piece suggests the approach the artist feels is appropriate to his work.
Pablo ignores him and insistently continues, asking him what he wears under his skirt.
Even as he insistently urges her to consider an earlier wedding, she responds with the shallow remarks that society has taught her.
In fact, in Old Church of Amsterdam, the artist seems to work rather insistently against the efforts of the whitewasher.
If imitation is a general category of artistic activity, repetition is an insistently demonstrative species of imitation.
This insistently polemical approach is most explicitly revealed in his method of sorting through the sample texts.
I watch with thinly veiled amusement as he insistently taps her on the shoulder.
I was relating my address when a guard approached and insistently tapped her watch, indicating time was up.
Her mother would call, thinly but insistently, summoning Caroline to help her to her chair in the living room.
Like a cowboy herding cattle, it slowly but insistently nudges a standard-issue plot along its well-worn course.
Affably but insistently, he makes a bid to establish some firm deadlines and fast-track the project.
More traditional in technique, they are linked to Impressionism through insistently modern subjects.
Like the other work in this issue, Leong's vision arrests and disturbs, creating unsettling moments that insistently summon critical imagination.
She also pays the bills which the errand boy had been insistently presenting.
Some of these questions overlap or at least return insistently to the same themes.
The surface of the liquid undulated gently, then more insistently, looking, not just a little, as though it were alive.
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It is possible that he wondered why he had been so insistently urged to come.
In the court the wind was eddying, and beneath some door he could hear it drone insistently.
The muscles of his legs ached as insistently as if clamped in a vice.
Something was insistently pressing on his brain, demanding a confession.
Yet there rose insistently before me the lissom beauty of his wife.
He held it to his ear and thumbed the call button insistently.
He spoke insistently, almost pleading with her in his eagerness to cover up that yawning silence.
For he knew that there, floating in the blue above him, was meat, the meat his stomach yearned after so insistently.
The brothers Ricardi insistently demanded that the game should continue.
Irrelevantly, insistently, scores of times, he wondered when they would come on and what they looked like.
Gilberte insistently went on, as if enjoying her friend's discomfiture.
Instead, her thought dwelt insistently upon the significance of his stepping aside, in the middle of a violent proposal, in order to make irrelevant remarks.
Instead of making out an interest in the poets, she avoided them instinctively, and dwelt rather insistently upon the practical nature of her gifts.
The wind came from the left, insistently blowing over to one side the mane on Mukhorty's sleek neck and carrying aside even his fluffy tail, which was tied in a simple knot.
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