Insists is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INSISTS in dictionary:

VERB:
• INSIST, to maintain very firmly
• demand something forcefully, not accepting refusal
• demand forcefully to have (something)
• persist in (doing something)
• state positively and assertively
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to be resolute on some matter

Words related to INSISTS

insist6 insisted9 insisting10

How to use INSISTS in a sentence

• The principle insists on the artist assuring himself that he distinctly sees what he attempts to represent.
• He insists on having the stage to himself, and in that determination the audience is entirely with him.
• I always tell my husband it seems like eating Alice or Laura when he insists upon having suckling-pig for luncheon.
• It insists that art has something to say to literature, that in this field as elsewhere holds good the law of natural selection of types and survival of the fittest.
• When they beg him to return them, he insists that each should freely expose herself before him, arguing that only in this way can they convince him of their love.
• On this subject there is a standing quarrel between them and society, which insists upon their eating the animals that they kill.
• Hubert insists on going to Italy, and I believe we shall remain there two months.
• The last devotion of which he is capable is that devotion of the mind which suffers partial performance, but insists upon exhaustive thought.
• His financial difficulties must have given him an uneasy conscience for he insists repeatedly on the wickedness of prodigality.
• The Captain insists with dignity that I exaggerate three hundred per cent.
• The law only creates duties, and insists on their fulfilment under threat of punishment.
• Arminius insists on knowing their qualifications for the post of magistrate.
• Theological explanations are assumptions built upon hypotheses, and your theologian always insists that you shall be dead before you can know.
• Then the fact that he insists that something or some one touched his breast on the driveway strikes me as a trifle suspicious.
• Lady Ardmore insists that the rescue was the most unique episode she ever witnessed, and says that she never understood America until she made our acquaintance.
• Such is the demand of race prejudice, and such the position of inferiority in which it insists on placing the Negro.
• But orthodoxy insists that he shall limit his acceptance to fixed and definite statements prepared for him by others.
• The steps are almost precipitous, but the old gentleman insists upon coming down to present in person his report to his superior officer.
• She insists, also, on presiding at all the schoolroom meals.
• He insists, at length, and with much logic, that He whom, as a Christian, he worships, is in Quichua styled Pachacamac.
• The one thing about life which he most insists on is its isolation, its individuality.
• He insists that to be happy one must have employment for the hands, the head and the heart.
• Above all, let her know that every competent doctor watches even the best of his trained nurses, and insists that they shall be in the open air daily.
• The hypothesis denies the existence of an absolute standard to which motions can be referred, and insists that they must all be considered relatively to the observer.
• He insists on coming in, and, to gain his purpose, tries to have the door opened.
• Every man is a walking eternity in himself, but he will never qualify if he insists on being a bore, even if he have to face sensational newspaper stories about himself.
• But a whale-boat is not the only place where a spill is threatened because some one in power insists on doing something at once useless and dangerous.
• It will not adapt itself to them but insists on being taken as it is, whether acceptable or not.

Similar words containing SIST without suffix s and without prefix in

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