Sentence examples for importuning from inspiring English sources

The word 'importuning' is a correct and usable word in written English
It means to ask someone persistently or insistently for something, especially in an annoying or intrusive way. Example: The salesman kept importuning me to buy his product even after I had politely declined.

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importuning

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Present participle of importune

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On Twitter, Mr Grillo called Mr Bersani "a political stalker" who was "importuning the M5S with indecent proposals".

Mr Gadd, who has spent time in a British prison for possessing child pornography, was expelled by Cambodia in 2002 after allegations of importuning for sex.

According to recent research by musicologist Dieter Schickling and novelist Helmut Krausser, the situation was rescued when Corinna's father was convicted for importuning and exposing himself to an underage girl.

Thus, while the Judenräte used tactics such as bribery, postponement, importuning, and appeasement to secure work permits for as many residents as possible, only a specified number of work permits were available and decisions were required.

"I don't go around cajoling and importuning my colleagues to go along with my point of view.

"The collective approach of the show's creators could be seen as a kind of arrogance, a stance of defiance that said in effect, 'We think this is funny, and if you don't, you're wrong.'... To viewers raised on TV that was forever cajoling, importuning, and talking down to them, the blunt and gutsy approach was refreshing, a virtual reinvention of the medium".

But the number that really stunned was a rendition of Cole Porter's "Love for Sale" in which he played the role of a sidewalk pimp importuning pedestrians near Times Square.

But Abdul Jabbar was also an uneducated man whose idea of governance had a lot to do with yelling at people and whose working methods came straight from the warlord tradition: petitioners crowded around him with creased papers, importuning him to fix this or grant that.

Yet at the climax Mr. Ferver's text spells out its intentions too obviously, and the confessional tone becomes importuning.

Díaz embodies that voice, importuning, emphatic and mournful by turns.

His father left behind a box with a note importuning his son to bury the contents with him, without opening anything inside.

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