How to Use disobedient in a Sentence

disobedient

adjective

• The dog was being disobedient.
• The disobedient soldier was given cleanup duty.
• The more disobedient people are, the longer this mess is a mess.
  — Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• Hochman has thick brown hair, with a disobedient cowlick in front, and large brown eyes.
  — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2021
• Qatar’s headache and the need to discipline the disobedient son.
  — Zainab Fattah, Bloomberg.com, 30 May 2017
• Contestants rarely oppose the lead of the show; to see one be so directly disobedient was thrilling.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• The effect of scolding was more pronounced when the dogs were obedient, not disobedient.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2015
• My left foot can be disobedient, dragging through the water like a weighted anchor.
  — Purnima Mani, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2023
• In the series, the younger Turner inherits a disobedient pooch.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2021
• What did the mother turkey say to her disobedient children?
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 28 July 2022
• His most famous role was being the misunderstood father who tried to give the universe to his very disobedient twins.
  — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 29 Nov. 2020
• In January, Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law that toughened penalties, which include jail time, for those who refuse to serve, or who are disobedient.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 June 2023
• Bone was born in Budapest in 1889 and proved an intelligent — if disobedient — child.
  — Michael Harris, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2017
• Societies often label women like me who choose to go against the norm as disobedient or defiant.
  — Jay Parini, CNN, 7 Aug. 2021
• So things like being disobedient or causing a disturbance at school.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
• The appeasement to the disobedient students and lawless left wing anarchists is absurd.
  — Mercury News Readers, The Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2017
• As the news broke, our director Ken Olin was literally attempting to direct a disobedient puppy in a scene.
  — Marcus Jones, EW.com, 16 July 2019
• In response, the lieutenant governor said Youngkin could pull funding from disobedient districts.
  — Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2022
• Breaking curfew, the disobedient trio foreshadows the triangle that will define the drama.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2022
• The Islamic regime has always operated in a way of wanting to make examples of disobedient people.
  — Lily Moayeri, Variety, 16 Dec. 2022
• Kyiv's revenge-seekers have already been shelling Donbas every day and are unwilling to hold peace talks, while dreaming about doing away with the disobedient population.
  — Carol Morello, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2017
• In the Indigenous Shuar communities of the Amazon, disobedient children were disciplined by giving them a juice called maikua, made from Brugmansia flowers.
  — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 10 Apr. 2023
• His famously disobedient hair has been tamed and sprayed into a modest, vaguely evangelical pouf.
  — Allison Glock, Esquire, 1 Nov. 2014
• Angry, vitriolic and mean, the bare-knuckled deep cut presented Metallica at its most dissonant and disobedient.
  — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 29 July 2022
• Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter did not directly reply to a question Friday asking what steps the governor will take to ensure disobedient districts allow families to send their children to school maskless.
  — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
• Just as Mr Modi has brought a new style of hardball politics to Indian elections, complete with sectarian incitement and online trolling, his government has taken a tougher line with disobedient states.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2020
• Beijing has weaponized its market power to punish disobedient countries, as Australia found after calling for an international inquiry into the origins of Covid and as Lithuania is presently discovering over its support for Taiwan.
  — Hal Brands, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• Aiding Xi, zero-covid has allowed the central government to discipline disobedient local governments, which coincidentally happen to be the most anti-Xi.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 20 June 2022
• But records detail multiple instances when staff called police because students were being disobedient: spraying water, punching a desk or damaging a filing cabinet, for example.
  — Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen, Chicago Tribune, 17 Dec. 2022
• Whereas parents of obedient children enjoy advantages and conveniences not enjoyed by parents of disobedient children, the benefits of obedience accrue primarily to the child.
  — John Rosemond, charlotteobserver, 26 Apr. 2017

Last Updated: 12 Oct 2024