How to Use obedience in a Sentence

obedience

noun

• But over the last decade, the club has added agility and obedience events open to mixed-breed dogs.
  — TIME, 15 May 2024
• Buddhist monks learn the art of obedience by a process of 'living by the bell'.
  — Juliana Piskorz, refinery29.com, 20 May 2021
• Grant me Your grace to walk in obedience to Your commands.
  — Connie Rowland, Woman's Day, 2 Aug. 2022
• Beautiful from here—the obedience to the grid, the vying against it.
  — Mary Gaitskill, The New Yorker, 8 July 2019
• The dog was being walked by its owner, who had just taken the dog to an obedience class in the store.
  — cleveland, 13 Aug. 2020
• The state of Texas’s demand for silence and obedience echoes that dark time.
  — Garrett Epps, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2017
• Now that is serving the central idea of obedience as a virtue.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2022
• Mat, not one for obedience, ventures out on his own as the others sleep.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 19 Nov. 2021
• The theme of blind obedience is one that Kennedy and Pelsue are happy to explore, right up to the closing of the curtain.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 12 Nov. 2019
• Gratitude for that gift should come in the form of faith and obedience, Bulger said.
  — al, 24 Dec. 2020
• Is this a health issue or a strict control-and-obedience deal?
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Jan. 2022
• The Ilongot of the Philippines have a word, bētang, that touches on all those, plus on awe and obedience.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• At a park next to the library, four dog owners took a dog obedience class under a full gray sky.
  — CBS News, 7 May 2022
• The left today has a compulsion to force obedience again and again.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 10 July 2019
• When the dogs board the bus, Mo does a small obedience drill, and passes out treats to reward good behavior.
  — Sydney Page, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
• Zeke shines at obedience and flies through agility work.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 25 Sep. 2020
• All this pageantry feels like forced unity at a time when calls for unity feel more like calls for obedience.
  — Drew Magary, GQ, 3 July 2018
• This dog should be taken to the vet for a health check, and also enrolled in obedience classes.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• The day began with Mass at 8, where Del Toro learned about creeds and saints and the strict rules dictating order and obedience.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• Europe does not mean a kind of Brezhnev doctrine of obedience is in place, the EU argues.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2021
• In my 1950s childhood, these lessons were about obedience.
  — WSJ, 27 Feb. 2023
• The dog, Cooper, will go to obedience school and then for training as a service dog for Maddie to bring to school and out in public.
  — Jesse Wright, chicagotribune.com, 28 Sep. 2021
• The rule of law meant nothing but total obedience to Saddam.
  — Paul Bremer and David C. Gompert, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2021
• Martin never hints that gay people exist who seek to live in obedience to the Catholic Church.
  — Eve Tushnet, Washington Post, 1 June 2017
• In the Bible, God demanded that Abraham show obedience by killing his son Isaac.
  — Michael A. Vargas, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2020
• Her handler told her that that world didn’t reward obedience, then turned around and demanded it of her all the same.
  — Devon Maloney, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2021
• The return of fascism and the idea that obedience is good scarily comes in cycles.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2022
• The obedience competition will take place on Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and will be streamed live on the club's website.
  — Fox News, 12 June 2021
• Obedient – Good citizenship comes by our obedience to our laws.
  — Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2024
• John Adams believed morality and virtue were necessary for a free society, and that virtue was an inner commitment and voluntary outward obedience to principles of truth and moral law.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 4 July 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024