Sentence examples for insisted on shaking from inspiring English sources

And when it was done, Mr. Loughner insisted on shaking the artist's hand.

The guy insisted on shaking hands before allowing Bobby to walk off.

Just before I left the army, sapped and depressed by what I'd been part of in Iraq and Afghanistan, I met a Kosovar in London who insisted on shaking my hand once I told him I'd served in Kosovo.

(He insists on shaking Ned's hand).

"Hello, Mazie!" Now and then an emotional bum will walk out in his underwear and insist on shaking Mazie's hand.

Indeed, whenever my tax return is due, my incredibly supportive father still insists on shaking his head dolefully and muttering something about law school.

There's another tell that all is not well: if she insists on shaking your hand and formally introducing herself as soon as the curtain is closed.

At the contract signing, however, Walter insists on shaking hands with Nathaniel, who instantly sputters into a full-blown panic attack, spilling tea on Walter's expensive boots and humiliating himself with incoherent muttering.

She insisted on transcending labels.

At the end of our time together, they insisted on publicly shaking my hand — an unthinkable heresy, an act that could have meant jail if the wrong people had been watching.

At the end of our time together, they insisted on publicly shaking my hand an unthinkable heresy, an act that could have meant jail if the wrong people had been watching.