How to Use insist on/upon in a Sentence

insist on/upon

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• In that case, do not insist on helping and stay out of the kitchen.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2024
• Link came to value the truth all the more, and to insist on it in his work.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 July 2023
• 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
• Tobias, as part of his process, likes to insist on a month’s rehearsal.
  — Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2022
• But the House could work around that if members insist on taking a vote.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Chelsea will insist on a permanent deal for the 27-year-old, though.
  — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 7 July 2025
• Like, why do men insist on never dressing properly for an event?
  — Condé Nast, Glamour, 29 Aug. 2023
• Jamie stands his ground when the detectives insist on removing her stuff.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 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
• 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
• And people who insist on only working from home may also have to leave their current sectors to do it.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024
• But others insist on Archaeopteryx's importance in the path to bird-hood.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2023
• And, as the ones writing the checks, clients may well insist on ownership over all creative decisions.
  — Stephen Wallis, ELLE Decor, 6 July 2023
• Scammers often insist on being paid with gift cards because their details are easy to share, easy to redeem and hard to trace.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2023
• Would the who’s-who of tech have, similarly, come out in full force to insist on his reinstatement?
  — Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2023
• 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
• Yet there are holdouts among GOP hard-liners who insist on even more spending cuts.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• Scammers insist on these methods because the money is hard to track and even harder to recover.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2024
• Why did Roki Sasaki insist on coming to the major leagues this winter?
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
• And Flynn and Murphy should stay the course and insist on a resolution.
  — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 9 May 2025
• While three of the poltergeists insist on causing mayhem, Kat befriends Casper, a lonely child spirit.
  — Claudia Guthrie, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
• Although others insist on Father Patrick’s charm and kindness, Marie doesn’t trust him.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Aug. 2023
• McGovern said scammers may insist on being paid through peer-to-peer payment apps like Cash App.
  — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 31 May 2024
• In the long run, the companies that insist on a rigid in-office routine are poised to face a talent drain, being left with a graying, high-cost talent pool.
  — Bygleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2023
• Still, too many people insist on casting the debate over what causes Alzheimer’s as an either-or problem, Nixon said.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022