Example sentences for: obedient

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

  • Deming's emphasis on worker autonomy and a joint "conversation" about the company's goals revises the much stricter model of "scientific management" championed by Frederick W. Taylor at the turn of the century, in which the workers were expected to be obedient drones.

  • Ehrenhalt himself advocates a return to the choice-free, obedient life of the 1950s, but while seductive in the abstract, it sounds more and more confining on close examination.

  • They want laws that require of teens that they behave like obedient children.

  • To smooth things over, the sultan sent a peace mission to the Thai court and, for extra coverage, an envoy to China, reconfirming Muzzafar Shah’s title as most obedient vassal.

  • It wasn'tThat she was less willing to be helped to walkBut that the walking itself had become less willing.Maybe the stupid demogorgon blindRecalcitrance of body, resentful of the lawsOf mind and spirit, was getting its own back now,Or maybe a new and subtle, alien,Intelligence of body was obedient nowTo other laws: "Weight is the measure of The force with which a body is drawn downward To the center of the earth"; "Inertia isThe tendency of a body to resist Proceeding to its fate in any wayOther than that determined for itself."


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