Example sentences for: stubborn

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

  • This conduct has embarrassed the company's supporters and triggered an avalanche of editorials calling Microsoft rich, ruthless, sneaky, petty, arrogant, and stubborn.

  • Both are stubborn.

  • In an article in the journal Science , an Intel scientist named Paul A. Packan reports that as silicon chips continue to shrink, their manufacturers are running up against stubborn physical limits for the first time--already, the smallest transistors have insulating layers only a few atoms thick.

  • Basset hounds are sweet and stubborn.

  • Most of the elements discovered in the first exuberant wave of Enlightenment chemistry bear abbreviations close to their actual names: Ni for nickel, first identified in 1751 (an abbreviation of German Kupfernickel , copper-demon, so called because miners first noticed it as a stubborn adulterant of copper ore), Al for aluminum—spelled alumin i um in the British Commonwealth nations (named in 1825 from Latin alumen , astringent substance), Co for cobalt (isolated in 1735; the name is a variant of German Kobold , a kind of imp).


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