importunes
- present tense form of importune (3rd person singular).
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 Young, Edward
In another place the refrain urges and importunes; it is time for flight: Cold and keen the north wind blows, Silent falls the shroud of snows.
From A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China by Cranmer-Byng, L. (Launcelot)
