importune

Example Sentences

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It had to be around here someplace, but Michael R. Jackson could not readily locate his Pulitzer Prize certificate when an importuning visitor asked for a look.

From New York Times

A famous letter written by Catherine Deneuve and other prominent Frenchwomen denounced #MeToo as “puritanism” and defended “the freedom to importune” as part of French “gallantry.”

From New York Times

But the legislative paths created in the past had not encompassed crimes such as “importuning” or solicitation.

From New York Times

She importuned Fred to notice the blood on the cuspid and to imagine the agony surrounding its expulsion from her mouth.

From Washington Post

State law makes it illegal for anyone who “solicits, requests, commands, importunes” or otherwise encourages others to engage in election fraud.

From New York Times