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

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

He was left with their infant daughter, their rural home, the night sky, importuning memories, and a gaping chasm.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2018

Only a few commercial enterprises showed the fortitude to resist Ernest’s importuning.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik