Sentence examples for To insists from inspiring English sources

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To insists

verb

To hold up a claim emphatically.

  • The defendant insisted on his innocence.

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They aren't appearing and were never going to," insists a spokesman for the show.

A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.

Everyone I speak to insists that the first punk in Iceland was a 14-year-old Einar Örn.

Everyone I speak to insists they do not know anyone who has Ebola; the epicentres of the disease are in the east, several hours drive from Freetown.

To be fair, while every football analyst and outsider I have ever read, including the Football Outsiders, insist on the essential superiority of the passing game in winning in the N.F.L., every football insider I have ever spoken to insists with equal vehemence that football is at heart a simple game, and that the team that wants to hit more generally wins more.

This is far from foolish — every good football coach I have ever spoken to insists that the game itself is at heart simple, blocking and tackling, and that blocking and tackling are first of all wanting to block and tackle — but against Belichick, who has that grim understanding of pain and gain and "sees the field," and knows how to adjust his team to circumstance, it feels hopeless.

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To insist on dispensation.

"To insist otherwise is simply wrong".

Or so this "Hamlet" seems to insist.

You have to insist.

"Her genius was to insist".

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