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
My heart overflows with hatred; the presence of my best friend weighs me down; the memory of a pure and noble love importunes and troubles me, and then—it is cowardly and unworthy.
From Mysteries of Paris, V3 by Eugène Sue
She also has heard the moans of some sufferer, and importunes Pitu Salla to tell her who it is.
From Apu Ollantay A Drama of the Time of the Incas by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
