Sentence Examples

1. Every few yards as he proceeded he was challenged by the sentinels but he stalked sullenly onward, utterly disregarding the summons of the soldiers, who only spared his life because they knew the air and tread no less than the obstinate daring of an Indian.
2. While Tom rowed and Florence navigated, guiding him past other boats, obstinate ducks, and clusters of lily pads, he wrestled with thoughts about Milly.
3. Mark clenched his lips together in obstinate silence.
4. He might be the new king to everyone else but to her, he was just her obstinate, pig-headed, annoying brother.
5. That did something to reassure me, but as we rowed back to Bradgate my obstinate doubts would not be dismissed.
6. It will be remembered that the obstinate fellow had insisted on keeping his famous family watch at London time, and on regarding that of the countries he had passed through as quite false and unreliable.
7. Which two mighty powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for six-and-thirty moons past.
8. But if they still continue obstinate, or offer to raise insurrections, he proceeds to the last remedy, by letting the island drop directly upon their heads, which makes a universal destruction both of houses and men.
9. The storm exasperated him, the gale made him furious, and he longed to lash the obstinate sea into obedience.