importune
verb (used with object)
to press or beset with solicitations; demand with urgency or persistence.
will importune
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future tenseof importune.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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“The needs are too great. And if we pass a strong package with strong bipartisan support, it will importune the House somehow or other to act, despite the morass they are in.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 16, 2023
First Priest: We will importune the gods with the savour of rarest spices.
From Plays of Near & Far by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
First Priest: We will importune the gods as never before.
From Plays of Near & Far by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
I must obey you at the city gate; but I will importune you here.
From The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau
Hear, then, the solemn, the last address, with which the unhappy Caoline will importune thee.
From Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney
