importune
verb (used with object)
to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
had importuned
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past perfectof importune.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He had importuned a doctor in Atlanta to play messenger boy for him.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2019
Had it been an instinct which had importuned her to save this man when he lay ill and hopeless in the shack at Chiricahua?
From Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey
Hastings as first lieutenant went in command of "A" Troop, but Devers had importuned head-quarters with letters and telegrams imploring to be permitted to accompany the column.
From Under Fire by C. B. Cox
The prosperity that had descended upon them had made them restless, and the night before they had importuned Lawler to permit them to spend "one more night in town before holin' up for the winter."
From The Trail Horde by Charles Alden Seltzer
‘An old story will suit us,’ said the lady who had importuned her.
From The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
