Sentence examples for insisted with from inspiring English sources

"This exchange," McCarthy insisted with exquisite understatement, "is important".

"It wasn't me," Mr. Jacobson insisted, with a laugh.

"We played the tape and the call came back," Sanders insisted, with extravagantly blunted affect.

This was not "amnesty," he insisted with a commendably straight face.

And they were terrible things," Williams insisted, with level melancholy, into the mike.

This year, the Jets had insisted with increased frequency, felt different, was different.

She yearns, she insists, with semiplausible conviction, to be pushed.

"This money is fine," she insists with a straight face.

"No, quite the reverse," he insists, with a brittle smile.

"It's not indulgence," she insists with sudden, quiet authority.

"No, it's fine," Franco insists with a smile.