What is "importuning"

Usage examples of "importuning".

But he may have acquired a taste for the practice, and we don't want him, in his ignorance, importuning anyone else.

Only his new wife's importuning had brought him to London in the first place.

As I recall, he has been importuning me to allow him to show me his aptitude to command horsemen.

He had fled out into the street and it had followed, importuning him, all the way to the eter Christian Tavern.

And then it was that I heard in full, from both Chade and Dutiful, with excited asides from Thick, of how Nettle had bedeviled and nagged Tintaglia, troubling her dreams and her waking hours, importuning her to pay back the puny humans who had suffered so much so that Icefyre could fly free.

Then I shall be yours to command, but until and unless this be done, you must cease importuning me.

I was seated on my favorite perch, and the shrill importunings of the birds made me even more irritable.

Unfortunately, Emperor Ran Vordue was new to his throne, and he eventually succumbed to the importunings of the merchant class.

Despite Zedar's shrill importunings, Torak himself remained quite calm.

He wished it were possible to travel for any distance anywhere without constant commercial importunings, but he knew that industrial and other pressures had forced an increasingly liberal interpretation of permissible billboard advertising along the interstate system.

However, despite all that was said to him, from sweetly phrased importunings to near-threats, he had refused stoutly to surrender the impressively sealed letters to any save the man to whom they were addressed, the man he had come to England to see, the Archbishop of York, Harold Kenmore.

She had been since adolescence a beacon for lost and wandering souls (particularly the recently dead) and when she tired of their importunings she turned on the thirty-odd televisions she owned, the din of which drove the wanderers away for a spell, but rendered ordinary exchanges near impossible.