insist
verb (used without object)
to be emphatic, firm, or resolute on some matter of desire, demand, intention, etc..
am insisting
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present progressiveof insist (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I’ve been on food stamps myself; it occurs to me that I am insisting on the necessity of expanding a system that consistently makes him feel like shit.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2018
I’m not suggesting that a biography of a major artist should be dominated by gossip, but I am insisting that it be filled with life: flawed, messy, and brilliant.
From Slate ● May 31, 2018
"When I say well-groomed, well-shaved, well-perfumed, it's a characteristic that I am insisting on among the young. I don't care about their education, since education always comes first of all from the family."
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2016
I am insisting that the life of country people is religious.
From The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology by Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson
What I am insisting upon is, that the sacred Writers plainly say,—We stand or we fall together.
From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by John William Burgon
