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
This week, a former song fragment that’s nearly a year old—belatedly expanded into a full-blown single, after months of relentless fan importuning, especially on TikTok—is sitting atop Billboard’s Hot 100.
From Slate ● May 1, 2021
But Graham’s importuning of Trump seemed to have failed, and the senator was none too happy to be confronted with evidence of it.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 22, 2019
Only a few commercial enterprises showed the fortitude to resist Ernest’s importuning.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
