Example sentences for: disobedience

How can you use “disobedience” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He should have got sued, sure, and jail was entirely appropriate for this particular act of civil disobedience, but as an occasional customer of the Golden Arches (personally, I prefer Wendy's) and French-American dual national, it's splendid to see someone willing to take a risk for their principles now and then, particularly when it's a blow against a monolithic transnational corporation that built itself up by underpaying children who ought to be at home studying for the next day of school rather than learning the mysteries of deep-frying every night.

  • McCivil Disobedience

  • Worried by the spread of his civil disobedience movement, the British jailed Gandhi in 1922 for two years.

  • As Roe took root, however, pro-choicers became defenders of the status quo, and pro-lifers resorted to protest-movement tactics such as civil disobedience.

  • Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall refused to grant an honorable discharge, citing Flinn's alleged "lack of integrity and disobedience to order" and warning that a special exemption would discredit the military-justice system.


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