Example sentences for: obeying

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

  • Kinsey, like every other social scientist since the Enlightenment, was simply obeying the central tenet of his discipline: that the scientific study of society is possible; that the results of such study are a better basis for policy than, say, the Mosaic interdiction against homosexuality.

  • The Post, which also fronts the story, and LAT report the identity of the passenger stabbed to death for not obeying terrorists' orders to sit with his head down and eyes closed: Rupin Katyal, a 25-year-old returning to New Delhi with his wife after their honeymoon.

  • To say they were obeying an administrator's instructions is not even the slightest defense.

  • Starr's confidence that he was obeying the law insulated him from examining his behavior in moral terms.

  • William Saletan accuses him of cleverly obeying those rules while offending journalistic ethical values all the same.


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