How to Use insistence in a Sentence

insistence

noun

• He spoke with great insistence of the need for reform.
• That was at the insistence of Manchin, in a bid to bring down record inflation.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 27 July 2022
• That comes as no surprise, given her insistence that Trump is unfit for office.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 25 July 2022
• Carmy undermines his own insistence on a respectful kitchen culture by indulging in frequent outbursts of verbal abuse.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
• Her most forward-thinking ideas came with her insistence that all courts, from the highest down to the most local, should be able to interpret the constitution.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2024
• His legacy is his insistence that he and other African-Americans be seen as persons, as equal human beings.
  — William Falk, The Week, 6 Aug. 2022
• Another is her persistence and insistence on her own idiosyncratic vision.
  — Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
• And the few new ideas Romulus does bring to the table are undercut by its insistence on leaning into some very questionable optics.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2024
• From his work on black holes and his insistence that space-time, too, emerges from bits, came insights into black hole entropy and the holographic principle in quantum gravity.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
• Nissen said that Rush eventually fired him over his insistence on scrapping the Titan’s first carbon fiber hull on safety grounds.
  — Mark Harris, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2024
• The pandemic was a political awakening for parents across the country, and teachers unions may come to regret their insistence on keeping schools shut down as much as parents do.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 July 2022
• Yet in her insistence on maintaining the groove, Beyoncé sacrifices an essential element of her work.
  — Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2022
• Beijing’s insistence that Hong Kong stick with one-week mandatory hotel quarantine for inbound travelers has transformed the city into a no-fly zone.
  — Clay Chandler, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2022
• An insistence on the right to stretch out, breathe, rage, make love.
  — Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• That pause was part of what sparked Trump’s insistence the election was shot through with fraud.
  — Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Sep. 2024
• This idea and this insistence are not going back in any box.
  — Thomas Smith, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2024
• The rest of the family bows to Kiki and Herb’s insistence.
  — Liana Finck, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2022
• Which only makes his insistence that his side is winning the battle for the soul of the GOP even more bizarre.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2023
• In private, though, Bush has never wavered from his insistence that the Iraq War was the right call.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2023
• Mothers confound us with their insistence that their way is the right one — the only right one.
  — Lisa Levy, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• Hence the insistence, now a tiresome cliché of the genre, on the self-doubts and anguished souls of their protagonists.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• Fashion media makes much of the fact that Haley makes much of her choice of fashion: her insistence on a skirt suit and heels.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
• One of the great merits of Johnson’s book is his insistence that the Chinese are not monolithic.
  — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• And there was the museum’s insistence on sticking to its opening date of Oct. 8.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• The theme is purple and orange and crystal and gold and flowers and, at Philipa’s insistence, bugs.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 13 June 2024
• To the daughter, her mother’s insistence that life in America has been fine and good is a delusion.
  — WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022
• It was said throughout the series how dangerous The Triplets were, and this insistence was not lost on Hannah.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 9 Jan. 2023
• Under state law, the woman should not have been hired at a school that accepted state scholarships, and the school fired her at the state’s insistence.
  — Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2023
• But Veep made its point with a battering, swift insistence.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
• In his insistence that Biff and Happy could — indeed, must — become titans of the business world, Willy crossed the line from dream to delusion.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024