Sentence examples for how I insisted from inspiring English sources

"Dead, how?" I insisted, and she looked down at me — bright and smart in her office outfit — with distaste, I'm sure.

I made her see that she had a broken mirror in her room, yet she insisted on keeping it, no matter how I insisted that it was better to throw broken mirrors into water on a moonlit night to get rid of bad luck.

Taking your own life is so grave and irreversible that we might indeed think it worth including such a clause: no matter how much I insist that I want to die, society must not help me to achieve this goal, and may indeed seek to frustrate my doing so.

No matter how much I insist that no, the mean cheating husband is not really a faintly disguised version of my husband (or ex-husband), I'm quite sure that their nod of agreement translates to, Sure.

I didn't tell the girls that for a small charge we could have Wi-Fi: how much more convivial and rewarding, I insisted, how much more hostelly, to stroll en famille through the comely streets of Stow.

I have teenage daughters, and I see from my own personal experience, how grateful I am that I insisted on this ritual of family dinner.

"I couldn't play at Madrid because of how I look," he insists.

He was "heartsick over some of my pictures and I could kick myself when I think of how I didn't insist on more from the director or the studio".

"Wasn't that some ghastly film?" I insist how very much better the novel is, but they never rush out to buy the book.

"That is why I insist to the players how important it is.

"Jim, you're not in a position to insist how I take my coffee".