Word Finder - insisted

definition

(with on or upon or (that + ordinary verb form)) To hold up a claim emphatically.

example

I insist that my secretary dresses nicely.

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(sometimes with on or upon or (that + subjunctive)) To demand continually that something happen or be done.

example

I insist that my secretary dress nicely.

definition

To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).

Felipa and Alondra insisted on providing the dress.

Dean insisted on driving her home.

Lisa insisted, still hoping to get a different answer.

Katie insisted she was going to be tall like Josh.

One little girl had fewer presents than the rest, and Helen insisted on sharing her gifts with her.

Quinn must have insisted they leave the way they did.

He insisted on leaving the vehicle at my disposal in case I needed it.

Alex had provided the money to remodel the home, but insisted that it stay in her name only.

My father then insisted on a delay of a year and now already six months, half of that period, have passed, and my resolution is firmer than ever.

She started to refuse, but he insisted, Don't be a martyr.

As my economics professors insisted, cost is determined by scarcity and demand.

Alex had insisted on driving his truck.

She nodded and insisted he continue.

Ermolov wished to act on his own judgment, but Dokhturov insisted that he must have Kutuzov's instructions.

Connor insisted if they were visiting Vermont, they would spend two days there.

I have always talked to Helen exactly as I would talk to a seeing and hearing child, and I have insisted that other people should do the same.

Lisa came home from the hospital the day before the funeral and Connie insisted on staying with her for a while.

Saturday morning Alex was up early and insisted on doing the chores.

As we hastened through the long grass toward the hammock, the grasshoppers swarmed about us and fastened themselves on our clothes, and I remember that my teacher insisted upon picking them all off before we sat down, which seemed to me an unnecessary waste of time.

Reverend Humphries called me a cab after an early pancake breakfast he insisted on cooking.

Something wasn't right, yet the doctor insisted he was doing fine.

She insisted on meeting at a public place, so Jackson suggested a bar near Elisabeth's house.

After this last incident, Bill insisted that Katie get a phone.

It seemed an invasion of his privacy, but he had insisted that it was now all theirs, not his.

She told him he was spoiling her and he insisted she deserved it.

When my aunt practically insisted he visit me, I was scared to death wondering what he knew or why he wanted to come.

Throughout this book, I've insisted the way to know the future is by studying the past.

It's just the way things are, she insisted.

These differences took two separate and extreme types, the one of which forcibly separated the two natures so as to deny anything like a real union, while the other insisted upon a mixture of the two, or an absorption of the human in the divine.

He was glad to see Prince Andrew, as he was to see any new visitor, and insisted on his staying the night.

It was a strange thing to say, especially coming from someone who insisted she was no longer interested in him.

If it's not, you destroyed it, she insisted.

There was too much that could go wrong, but Winston insisted.

That wasn't too surprising, considering the fact that she insisted she wasn't a social person.

He was spoiling her, but he insisted she had it too rough before.

She had been the one who insisted that they wait until after marriage, but it was Alex who came up with sound reasoning for it.

She insisted that Josh would never cheat on Lori.

Yet Carmen insisted that any artificial method of conception was sinful – playing God.

It was something she would have liked to do, but Alex insisted that it was too dangerous.

He insisted I stay within the walls, never take a life, remain faithful first to my people, second to my family.

I'll ride over on horseback to enable a quick escape if needed, she insisted.

Moira Gillett, she always insisted on windows being open - even in winter!

Nevertheless he was not averse to a peace, nor to a preliminary suspension of hostilities, and negotiations were opened at Pressburg, Kassa and Beszterczebanya successively, but came to nothing because Bethlen insisted on including the Bohemians in the peace, whereupon (20th of August 1620) the estates of North Hungary elected him king.

To his surprise, the entire Reynolds family welcomed the decision and insisted that Josh would have wanted it that way.

She insisted she didn't want anything to do with the insurance money or the farm — she wanted to get away from everything that reminded her of Josh.

For a woman who adamantly insisted from childhood that she didn't want children, an infant was a lot of responsibility.

You're fine now, and it's time for me to move onto the next mission, she insisted.

It was largely owing to Consalvi's combined firmness and tact that the Concordat, as ultimately signed, was free from the objectionable clauses on which the First Consul had at first insisted.

The defects of Descartes lie rather in his apparently imperfect apprehension of the principle of movements uniformly accelerated which his contemporary Galileo had illustrated and insisted upon, and in the indistinctness which attaches to his views of the transmission of motion in cases of impact.

Though the jus divinum of presbytery is not now insisted upon as in some former times, Presbyterians claim that it is the church polity set forth in the New Testament.