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
• 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
• 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 insistence that there remained a path to playoff success even with that postseason beginning with the play-in round.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023
• Trump himself seems buried in the details of his criminal cases and his insistence on talking about the 2020 election.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2024
• Dale followed up to ask about Greene’s false insistence that Trump had won the 2020 Presidential election.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• But Gorny’s insistence on making it in the U.S.—he considered his flight here to be a one-way ticket—meant he was undaunted by starting over.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
• On the unwavering insistence of the house majority, this meal is dedicated to that beloved cut of meat, the pork rib.
  — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 24 Dec. 2023
• That grief, Benton says, is part of what fueled Peggy’s insistence on traveling to Tuskegee.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2023
• For film writers, a wrinkle that came up late in the strike was the union’s insistence that the studios restore screenwriter contracts that were suspended during the strike.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 17 July 2023
• The tweet followed Hill’s previous insistence that the entire system of policing was built on White supremacy.
  — Fox News, 29 Jan. 2023
• This agenda explains Smotrich’s insistence on curbing the powers of Israel’s Supreme Court.
  — Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2023
• And Owen's insistence that Link is the best orthopedic surgeon in Seattle equally shakes him.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 5 May 2023
• There is something both breathless and intimate about her insistence on fun.
  — Thomas Beller, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2023
• During a briefing in December, his insistence that he be allowed to speak prompted Jean-Pierre to end the briefing early.
  — Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• Pence's aides said the president's insistence pushed the country to the brink of a constitutional crisis and placed the vice president at grave risk of physical harm when the mob stormed the Capitol.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2023
• Mayor Adams’s skepticism about raising taxes and his insistence on belt-tightening and the need to cut social programs reflect a sense of who matters in the city, and who the city is for.
  — Sam Needleman, The New York Review of Books, 7 Oct. 2023
• But a welcome corrective offered by the film is the insistence that, for the faithful, whatever happens on this consecrated day matters to all the other days of the week.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
• Eva Mendes is sharing some insight into her and Ryan Gosling's insistence on privacy.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2023
• When facing criminal charges, most defendants all but glue their mouths shut before trial at the insistence of their lawyers.
  — James Fanelli, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2023
• The purpose would not be to dwell on Black death, but to ponder the causes and consequences of an uncompromising insistence on civil and human rights.
  — Jemar Tisby, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024