Example sentences for: stubborn

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

  • The papers agree that the event epitomized South Carolina's stubborn and controversial attachment to Confederate symbols.

  • The threesome of Harry, Ron Weasely, and Hermione Granger (who is likely to be everybody's favorite character) are believably mischievous, competitive, vain, and, for all their intelligence, prone to childish foolishness (e.g. the clever, studious Hermione's stubborn crush on the egotistical charlatan Professor Lockhart in Chamber of Secrets ).

  • Anyone who knew Tony Lukas even slightly was deeply impressed by his boundless, open-minded curiosity about the injustices of modern life, along with his stubborn reportorial integrity about getting to the very bottom of any story as best he could.

  • However, the Chinese were stubborn.

  • Applause for Europa, Europa director Agnieszka Holland's feminist adaptation of Henry James' novel, starring Albert Finney as an overbearing father and Jennifer Jason Leigh as his stubborn daughter.


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