Example sentences for: willful

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

  • Affirmative action, with its promise of government intervention to overcome the effects of discrimination, represented a willful refusal by blacks to accept "the main pattern of American history," the pattern of ever-expanding inclusiveness.

  • Check out David Remnick's excellent column in this week's New Yorker for more on this, and on Al Gore's willful blindness to the corruption of his good friend Viktor Chernomyrdin.

  • The paper claims that the most authoritative source on the common law known to those who wrote and ratified the Constitution includes in its list of "high misdemeanors" that can be committed by those serving the public trust, both "obstructing the execution of lawful process" and "willful and corrupt perjury."

  • It isn't just the willful echoes of Basket Case (1982) and Dead Ringers (1988).

  • Judge Susan Webber Wright called his perjury "a willful refusal to obey this court's discovery orders."


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