Example sentences for: hidebound

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

  • I do not mean to sound like a hidebound traditionalist.

  • An editorial in last Saturday's WP about the Taliban's harboring of Osama bin Laden exemplifies some of the pointlessness of this hidebound genre.

  • 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.

  • I have few data to support me, and my stamina are not up to long, tedious research, but I have a hunch that media —the main agendum on many a pedant's plate these days—is well on its way to becoming a standard singular noun, except perhaps among hidebound literati and intransigent intelligentsia on various university campi, in style books, and in other blessed receptacles of holy semantic writ.

  • 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.


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