Example sentences for: recalcitrant

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

  • Working on it until six days before his death, the sculptor chiselled a pathetic Mary struggling to hold up the dead Jesus, a strange throwback to medieval sculpture for his last tussle with recalcitrant stone.

  • On the same day the Times conspired with the forces of capitalism to herd recalcitrant consumers into buying, the company was down to about 7,000 items.

  • When the famous unifiers Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa fought to end the 16th-century civil wars, Hideyoshi used Himeji as a base of operations against the recalcitrant warlords of Western Honshu.

  • The conventional response to this amusing transposition is A funny jab at a recalcitrant pupil.

  • There was another attack on Gingrich in the liberal Guardian of London, which linked him with the recalcitrant Northern Irish Protestant leader, the Rev.


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