insistently
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Insistently downward melodic phrases appear to echo section’s title until they emerge as the idée fixe of the entire piece, doleful and reflecting a world in decline.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2023
Insistently, they call our attention to the scale of what happened.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2022
Insistently private, she speaks strategically, at times even euphemistically, about her home life.
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2022
Insistently but almost always delightfully, Brazil have been taking England's ball away pretty much ever since.
From The Guardian • Feb. 2, 2013
Insistently conventional, selectly ordinary, in appearance, the stick with a pig-skin handle hanging from his left arm, he had studied the doll with a deepening interest.
From Cytherea by Hergesheimer, Joseph
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