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Example sentences for: obstinate
How can you use “obstinate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
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.
A typical county boast still often expressed is Sussex won't be druv and anyone contrairy is reckoned to be obstinate.
Because rent regulations say you can't evict people when their leases are up (if they even have leases), one obstinate tenement dweller can block the creation of a 50-story high-rise.
The adjective, which now means `contrary or obstinate,' was originally just a lazy pronunciation of ordinary . That is also what it meant.
"[D]espite the impossible circumstances under which they were written, they are an extraordinary and moving record of a courageous, compassionate and obstinate mind dedicated to democratic principles and the amelioration of the Chinese people's harsh fate" (Judith Shapiro, the New York Times Book Review ).