How to Use insistence in a Sentence

insistence

noun
Definition of insistencenext
Synonyms for insistencenext
  • So why the insistence from Haidt and others that smartphones dangerously rewire the brain?
    — Anthony Vaccaro, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
  • At his insistence, attorneys for the city and the alliance selected several outside auditing firms to bid for the job.
    — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Whitmer became popular in Michigan for her insistence on fixing the state’s roads, and has been a rising national star.
    — David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 8 July 2024
  • 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
  • The theme is purple and orange and crystal and gold and flowers and, at Philipa’s insistence, bugs.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 13 June 2024
  • 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 twins were bruised, but escaped worse harm because they had been strapped securely in the stroller at the insistence of their grandmother, Helmer said.
    — Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2024
  • 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
  • Most of those fights have been litigated and resolved in the last four years despite the continued insistence by a loud handful of Republican voters and officials that the 2020 contest was wrought with fraud.
    — Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 July 2024

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