Example sentences for: hidebound

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

  • Both pit a morally hidebound middle against a culturally permissive overclass.

  • Given the track record of most diversification experiments, Sony should have a "do not try this at home" label attached, but its adaptability and innovation belie the traditional critique of Japanese corporations as hidebound and conformist.

  • It is unsurprising that the Navy, generally regarded as the most hidebound branch of the military (and the one most resistant to ending racial segregation), found a compelling need, in the national interest and for essential military purposes that you wouldn't understand, to sustain a reactionary social policy.

  • One is hidebound, stiff, silent in the face of media criticism.

  • Executives are often too close to problems or too hidebound in their thinking to produce new solutions.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast