importune
verb (used with object)
to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
importuning
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present participleof importune.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Getting the devices out means keeping out the importuning virtual world, with its entertainers and weirdos and cyberbullies, and creating space for psychic and physical rest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
It had to be around here someplace, but Michael R. Jackson could not readily locate his Pulitzer Prize certificate when an importuning visitor asked for a look.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2022
When the issue of men convicted of importuning was raised in Parliament before the Turing law passed, former Home Office minister Sam Gyimah said they were not eligible.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2019
Many of the women I met in Tbilisi’s food world spoke of Jorjadze as though she were standing in their kitchens, importuning them to use newspaper to gauge the freshness of meat.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
The old man snatched at his shoulder, importuning him still in a language unknown to me.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
