Example sentences for: stubborn

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

  • Both are stubborn.

  • The stubborn aristocracy and high clergy were anxious to protect their ancient privileges; a burgeoning bourgeoisie longed for reforms that would give them greater opportunity; the peasantry was no longer prepared to bear the burden of feudal extortion; and a growing urban populace of artisans groaned under intolerable hardships.

  • Meanwhile, the Radical Republicans were impeaching President Johnson, a stubborn Democrat, who was consistently defying their will on various Reconstruction-related measures.

  • Until recently I was more sympathetic to Explanation 2. But lately I have started to wonder whether the stubborn unwillingness of Japan's economic engine to catch is, as many foreigners seem to think, merely because the jump-start hasn't been big enough or sustained enough.

  • U.S. officials, while complaining that Mobutu is too selfish and stubborn to quit, have refused to let him into the United States.


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