importune
verb (used with object)
to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
importunes
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present tense formof importune (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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In the novel, the Mongoose importunes Ashok to remarry; it is actually Ms. Uma, a former lover whom Ashok reconnects with after his separation from Pinky, who appears to suggest that Balram be replaced.
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2021
The High Line, incidentally, provides an ideal platform for public art that importunes without annoying—unlike most of its kind today, which tends to fail as civic symbolism or as art, if not both.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2014
When Aaron ignores him, Teddy importunes Lea in a grocery store and invites himself to her husband’s 40th-birthday bash.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2013
At length, disarm'd, He calls his friends, that save him, his worst foes, And importunes the skies for swift perdition.
From The Revenge A Tragedy by Edward Young
"And drink to the success of the beaver trade," importunes Ben.
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
