Example sentences for: obstinate

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

  • A typical county boast still often expressed is Sussex won't be druv and anyone contrairy is reckoned to be obstinate.

  • The adjective, which now means `contrary or obstinate,' was originally just a lazy pronunciation of ordinary . That is also what it meant.

  • In the past, the most obstinate white opponents of integration (the Goldwater wing of the Republican Party and conservative Southern Democrats ) argued that people should have the right to associate--or not to associate--with whomever they wish.

  • If this drags on for too long, and Iran (say) seems inexcusably obstinate, it can be judged noncompliant by a vote of convention members, and sanctioned accordingly.

  • The WSJ runs a fine feature about the military's obstinate attachment to anti-Soviet era big ticket weapons systems and its concomitant failure to fully tap the potential of newer, smaller ideas.


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