importune
verb (used with object)
to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
have importuned
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present perfectof importune.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“Tell me what your name is, darling,” said the woman, but she might as well have importuned a flower.
From The Portion of Labor by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
We, ourselves, have importuned this holy saint, and he has proved marvellously helpful on parlous occasions.
From Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy by Charles Major
Lots of jest such ones have importuned me for food on my Jonesville door-step.
From Samantha at the World's Fair by Baron C. de Grimm
But now I happen to speak of Salutation at Church, I must take notice that several of my Correspondents have importuned me to consider that Subject, and settle the Point of Decorum in that Particular.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Joseph Addison
"Then you need only to have said so, and I'd not have importuned you to tell it; for, to say truth, Catty, I never knew you had any secrets from me."
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever
