3 example sentences using importunate.
Importunate used in a sentence
Importunate in a sentence as an adjective
Well, one doesn't wish to be an importunate jackass, either - and avoiding that is a social skill worth having, too.
Maybe I sometimes ask him for help that's actually a lot of work: that's not me being importunate, that's me not knowing about cars.
Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate *****, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Importunate definitions
expressing earnest entreaty; "an importunate job applicant"