Example sentences for: obedient

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

  • 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.

  • from generation to generation" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). A few, like Pearl K. Bell in the Wall Street Journal , find "a surfeit of sweetly obedient docility" in the novel and say parts are "perilously at the edge of sentimentality."

  • trainer an enforcer who specializes in prolonged torture to elicit certain conditioned responses from his victims, or trainees, who become highly obedient.

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

  • 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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