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Example sentences for "importune"

Lexicographically close words:
importeth; importing; imports; importunate; importunately; importuned; importunes; importuning; importunities; importunity
  1. I do not know whether I am mistaken in my conjecture; but I must own, that it was for this very reason I would not importune you upon the subject, for fear of making you uneasy.

  2. This is because he wished, in all things, to have his clergy preferred, in regard to whom he took sufficient care to importune me for them; although they are all better merchants than students of Latin.

  3. It were well that these laymen of good life, when religious are lacking, not only be not appointed by the bishop, but that they do not importune the Indians.

  4. I wonder, Villiers, thou shouldest importune me For one that is our deadly enemy.

  5. My Lord and father, I have sought for you: My mother and the Peers importune you To keep in presence of his majesty, And do your best to make his highness merry.

  6. But Moses, by no means content with this assurance, continued to importune God not to entrust Israel to an angel, but to conduct and guide them in person.

  7. Pietro, who was somewhat dull of wit, believed what she said and falling in with her counsel, began, as best he knew, to importune Dom Gianni to teach him the trick.

  8. I importune the gods no further, nor do I require of my friend in power any larger enjoyments, sufficiently happy with my Sabine farm alone.

  9. With what prayer shall the sacred virgins importune Vesta, who is now inattentive to their hymns?

  10. O, don’t importune me; as though you needed to obtain this of me by entreaty.

  11. They began at once to importune Ruddle about the interview and to pass remarks on the boy, who fled from them to his own room.

  12. He hath been twice at Bergh, and hath spoke with the Cardinal (Mazarin) three or four times; I kept myself by, and had a care that he did not importune him with too long speeches.

  13. If he loves me with that purity he ought to do, pursued she, he will cease to importune me any further: and though his passion be ever so violent, his respect and submission to my commands will oblige him to silence.

  14. Against all sence you doe importune her, Should she kneele downe, in mercie of this fact, Her Brothers ghost, his paued bed would breake, And take her hence in horror Mar.

  15. Importune him once more to go my Lord, His wits begin t' vnsettle Glou.

  16. God will reuenge it, whom I will importune With earnest prayers, all to that effect Daugh.

  17. Confesse your selfe freely to her: Importune her helpe to put you in your place againe.

  18. Nor need'st thou much importune me to that Whereon, this month I haue bin hamering.

  19. I am dying Egypt, dying; onely I heere importune death a-while, vntill Of many thousand kisses, the poore last I lay vpon thy lippes Cleo.

  20. For I am too sure of your genius and goodness, and too glad that they shine steadily for all, to importune you to make assurance sure by a private beam very often.

  21. You are an inveterate European, and rightfully stand for your polity and antiquities and culture: and I have long since forborne to importune you with America, as if it were a humorous repetition of Johnson's visit to Scotland.

  22. Nor need'st thou much importune me to that Whereon this month I have been hammering.

  23. And though we may differ in many things, in this at least we can agree, to importune our heavenly Father to prosper by his constant blessing what we do aright, and overrule by his continued care all that we do amiss.

  24. At the first glimpse of dawn he hastened to the prison, again to importune this intractable stranger; but the rage of Vathek exceeded all bounds on finding the prison empty, the grates burst asunder, and his guards lying lifeless around him.

  25. In my ryght harty wise I commend me vnto you & to euery of you And albeit I am many wise importune & bold apon you for my selff & my frendes When cause & occasion hath so requyred.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "importune" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advocate; aggravating; annoying; appeal; apply; approach; ask; beg; beseech; beset; besiege; bothersome; brace; bug; buttonhole; cajole; coax; conjure; crave; desire; disturbing; dun; entreat; exasperating; exhort; galling; harassing; hint; implore; importunate; importune; insist; instruct; invoke; irksome; irritating; lobby; nag; persecute; persuade; pesky; pester; pestering; pestiferous; petition; plague; plaguing; plead; ply; pray; press; pressure; proposition; provoking; push; recommend; request; solicit; supplicate; tease; teasing; tiresome; tormenting; troublesome; troubling; urge; vexatious; vexing; wearisome; wheedle; worrying