Example Sentences

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In the novel, the Mongoose importunes Ashok to remarry; it is actually Ms. Uma, a former lover whom Ashok reconnects with after his separation from Pinky, who appears to suggest that Balram be replaced.

From Slate • Jan. 22, 2021

The High Line, incidentally, provides an ideal platform for public art that importunes without annoying—unlike most of its kind today, which tends to fail as civic symbolism or as art, if not both.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2014

When Aaron ignores him, Teddy importunes Lea in a grocery store and invites himself to her husband’s 40th-birthday bash.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2013

Thee the poor countryman solicits with his anxious vows; whosoever plows the Carpathian Sea with the Bithynian vessel, importunes thee as mistress of the ocean.

From The Works of Horace by Horace

To-night I am resolved to be at ease; to dismiss what importunes, and recall what pleases.

From Sylvia's Marriage by Sinclair, Upton