Again he spoke, an insistent and compelling tone to his voice.

He heard low tones, insistent, in a language that was clearly not English.

The insistent tone of his voice brought her up short.

When the reporter rose to go along, the fighter said, "I'll be right back" in a tone insistent on privacy.

"There is no paralysis," he says, in his familiar insistent tone.

Its insistent tone told him that Willie had spotted somebody.

One night, we heard the bright and insistent tones of a toddler saying, "I want chicken fingers."

The silence made Joe more nervous than the insistent trilling tone had done.

"Tell me," he repeated, his soft tone more insistent than a shout.

"Work your magic," she said in a low heated and insistent tone.