How to Use insist on/upon in a Sentence

insist on/upon

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• Link came to value the truth all the more, and to insist on it in his work.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 July 2023
• In that case, do not insist on helping and stay out of the kitchen.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2024
• The call to insist upon its message is what this book is kind of about.
  — Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
• The view from this corner is that customers should insist on it.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
• Chelsea will insist on a permanent deal for the 27-year-old, though.
  — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 7 July 2025
• But the House could work around that if members insist on taking a vote.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• Then there are the ones who insist on ad-libbing — and blame the writers on air when their jokes don’t land.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
• Tobias, as part of his process, likes to insist on a month’s rehearsal.
  — Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2022
• Stand your ground and insist on more time and space to make a decision, or the answer is no.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
• Those who insist upon a side item to go with their entrees?
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
• And the experiment is to put the human foot down and insist on a shorter walk.
  — Tara Parker-Pope, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
• If your pup is stressing out among the unleashed dogs, get them out of there — don’t insist on sticking around to make a point.
  — Robin Abrahams, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
• Farther north, the sights—the snowy mountaintops, the ice cascades, the towers on the St. Lawrence—insist on stronger emotions.
  — Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
• Does a person with this much contempt for texts by day insist on reading aloud to his kids at night?
  — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 12 July 2025
• His rationale: San Diegans would insist on a winner, and the Italian style was the best means to that end.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2023
• There are two types of people: those who insist on binaries and those who don’t.
  — Alex Edelman, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2024
• But how many will be injured, or even killed, in the battles those politicians still insist on fighting?
  — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
• But others insist on Archaeopteryx's importance in the path to bird-hood.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2023
• And Flynn and Murphy should stay the course and insist on a resolution.
  — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 9 May 2025
• Christmas beats the hell out of these guys who really didn’t do anything but insist upon the rules of the thumb wrestling contest.
  — Richard Newby, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2023
• For instance, Steves said there are plenty of people who travel to Paris and insist on French onion soup, no matter the time of year.
  — Kelsey Fowler, Travel + Leisure, 2 Apr. 2023
• The big question is whether Israel will insist on enforcing the cease-fire, which Hezbollah is opposed to, or leave it up to the Lebanese army.
  — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 19 Nov. 2024
• Due to factors such as a 1536 jousting accident, His Majesty (Henry was the first monarch to insist on the title) put on a few pounds.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2025
• A lot of experts expect the Justice Department to go to court to try to either block the deal or insist upon changes.
  — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 15 June 2023
• Yet there are holdouts among GOP hard-liners who insist on even more spending cuts.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• The General Assembly just needs to finish the job, and the governor should insist on it.
  — Jim Amann, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2025
• What kind of monster would insist upon something like that?
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
• While three of the poltergeists insist on causing mayhem, Kat befriends Casper, a lonely child spirit.
  — Claudia Guthrie, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
• Sometimes, even that wasn’t enough, and the relationship would be so badly damaged that the player would insist on being traded.
  — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 8 July 2025
• Our government is the custodian of public trust and taxpayer funds and we as citizens have every right to insist on transparency and accountability.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2025