Sentence example with the word 'importune'

importune

advocate, beset, call on, exert pressure, insist upon, make advances, pestiferous, plead with, recommend, tiresome, wheedle

Definition v. beg persistently and urgently

Last update: October 16, 2015


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Please don't importune people.   [Please select]

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Even after I had politely declined and shut the door, I could hear the salesman continuing to importune me to let him demonstrate the expensive vacuum cleaner.   [verb]

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Realizing that the boss was in one of his rare good moods, I seized the opportunity to importune him for a raise.   [verb]

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Jean Valjean sometimes said to her, smiling at his happiness in being importuned: "Do go to your own quarters."   [verb]

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Brown and Hamilton, however, began to importune me to continue with them to Washington.   [verb]

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Did he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the spirit at certain moments of life.   [verb]

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She seemed to be tired of my questions: and, indeed, what claim had I to importune her.   [verb]

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Why do you importune me about her.   [verb]

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She had divined, somehow, that it annoyed Selwyn to know that men had importuned her.   [Please select]

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Confess yourself freely to her; importune her help to put you in your place again.   [Please select]

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But she importuned the hunter to see her every day or no more at all.   [Please select]

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