Example Sentences

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She does this while offering him no emotional response to his importunities whatsoever.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2024

In her footsteps, women had to take the next move as resisters of unwarranted prejudice: "Sue for your rights and privileges. Know the reason that you cannot attain them. Weary them with your importunities."

From Salon • Jun. 28, 2020

You can turn off your devices but you cannot turn off the knowledge that they are receiving the world’s importunities.

From Time • Feb. 26, 2015

It is common for assistants to shield the great men for whom they work from the importunities of outsiders.

From Time Magazine Archive

His master would have none of it; but scolded him for his importunities.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson