How to Use insistence in a Sentence

insistence

noun

• He spoke with great insistence of the need for reform.
• An insistence on the right to stretch out, breathe, rage, make love.
  — Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• That was at the insistence of Manchin, in a bid to bring down record inflation.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 27 July 2022
• 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
• The feeling of unity, the insistence that all of Africa is one, just will not disappear.
  — John M. Mugane, Quartz, 5 Apr. 2022
• 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
• What is at stake in Pressly’s insistence on the value of oblivion?
  — John Kaag, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Sadie, who would love nothing more than to discover her mom as a ghost, doesn’t buy her sister’s insistence there’s a monster in the house.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• The twins were bruised, but escaped worse harm because they had been strapped securely in the stroller at the insistence of their grandmother, Helmer said.
  — Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2024
• But the most important strides for labor came at the insistence of Democrats in the House of Representatives.
  — Miriam Sapiro, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2024
• It was reclaimed thanks to the insistence of a neighborhood association and opened to the public as a park in 2009.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• Putin’s insistence that the war will continue until his objectives are met means that the fight for Lyman — or what’s left of it — isn’t over.
  — Ievgeniia Sivorka, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
• Putin’s insistence that the war will continue until his objectives are met means that the fight for Lyman - or what’s left of it - isn’t over.
  — Jeff Stei and Ievgeniia Sivorka, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2022
• At the insistence of her acupuncturist, Caulfield went to a neurologist for an MRI.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2022
• The process only went smoothly for the one once named Smaug but renamed the Tyrant at Team Leader 2’s insistence, the harness no impediment.
  — Jeff Vandermeer, WIRED, 22 Oct. 2024
• Trump’s misstatements became so frequent, and his insistence on spurning corrections so adamant, that much of the U.S. media pushed back harder.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024