Example Sentences

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"I will be insisting that every senator and staff be tested twice before they enter that room and I'm hopeful that my colleagues will wear masks as well," Blumenthal said on Tuesday.

From Fox News • Oct. 6, 2020

The irony is that for once, the courts will be insisting that clinics should be treated just like every other health care provider.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2014

Before tonight's closing ceremony has ended we will be insisting that Usain Bolt is really British.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2012

And I will be insisting on extraordinary performance moving forward.”

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2010

You will be insisting next that an incroyable is a Greek, or that creature, that sort of Italian bandit who gave the disgusting roar, is a French marquis....

From Aurora the Magnificent by Brownell, Gertrude Hall