How to Use recalcitrant in a Sentence

recalcitrant

adjective

• The same would be true in the rare cases when the wife is recalcitrant.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2022
• Bored teenagers who were nonetheless still less recalcitrant than some of the adults in the room.
  — Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2023
• Over the course of that trip, he’d been transformed from a recalcitrant Arab to an ebullient one.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• When the big side-by-side got within a hundred yards, the recalcitrant beast bucked a couple of times and charged.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Dec. 2021
• But Texas is recalcitrant and change is hard to achieve, Jack said Wednesday.
  — Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023
• But this doesn’t work for plants with recalcitrant seeds.
  — Doug Johnson, Wired, 16 Jan. 2021
• Scrapes sides and bottom again and mix in any recalcitrant streaks.
  — Leah Eskin, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• What recalcitrant Jew, with his finger on the pages of the cursèd Talmud, could attain it, could live it?
  — Cynthia Ozick, Harper's Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
• The touch switches for the heater and the air conditioner can be recalcitrant as well.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 12 Apr. 2023
• This, more than troops on a map, speeches to the U.N., or recalcitrant tweets, may prove to be Trump’s real legacy.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2020
• When a piece isn’t going well, Ms. Bhabha said she isn’t tempted to use her ax in anger on a recalcitrant block of cork.
  — Ted Loos, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2018
• The bill did nothing to draw recalcitrant Southern Democrats back into the fold.
  — Jeff Shesol, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2020
• It has been accepted as fact that recalcitrant patches of grass are painted green and that the ponds used to be dyed blue.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
• Many tycoons could count on ministers to put in a word with a recalcitrant banker.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• Donald Trump says China could do a lot more to rein in its recalcitrant neighbor.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 6 July 2017
• Regan is an 18-year-old distance runner who hasn’t been able to run for three months thanks to a recalcitrant stress fracture.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 2 July 2022
• Like the war in Yemen, the isolation of Qatar is an effort by Salman and his son to subdue a recalcitrant neighbor to fall in line with Saudi policies.
  — Mohamad Bazzi, The Atlantic, 21 June 2017
• Exxon is not the only recalcitrant company to be dragged along in said manner.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• Coughlin said his firm was asked by Kirk Adams, Ducey’s former chief of staff, to help get recalcitrant lawmakers on board with the budget and the water bill.
  — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 6 July 2022
• The drug is designed for recalcitrant gout patients, who often have large lumps on their fingers, feet, and kidneys.
  — Arthur Allen, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2023
• The evidence is clear—and was, in a way that all but only the most recalcitrant can deny, made plain again in the extended endurance test that began in March 2020.
  — Time, 13 May 2021
• In addition, this time the Met’s design staff has triumphed over the Breuer’s recalcitrant galleries.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
• Past the recalcitrant bikers of Cook's Corner and up the slithering dirt roads of Trabuco Canyon sits a monastery where monks live in communion with the old ways.
  — Ben Brazil, latimes.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• Maybe a better way to deal with these recalcitrant issues is to combine them so that there is a framework for compromise.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 25 Aug. 2019
• The mediator wields the threat of publicly blaming the recalcitrant party or parties for the failure of talks.
  — Andrew P. Miller, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2024
• Lear warns the justly recalcitrant Cordelia, and for the next three hours the play makes good on this threat, turning over negatives—no, not, nothing, never—like shiny vials of poison.
  — David Yezzi, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
• If recalcitrant journalists or their sources don’t bow to legal threats, the aggrieved can go on the offensive—in other words, get down and dirty.
  — Ben Widdicombe, Town & Country, 18 Jan. 2019
• To sway the recalcitrant members of his party, Johnson put forth a new version of the bill that reauthorized Section 702 for two years instead of five.
  — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 12 Apr. 2024
• Some clients this season, like a sweet but recalcitrant 8-year-old LOL-doll collector, hold on to every last pink plastic shoe.
  — Hillary Kelly, Curbed, 1 Apr. 2022
• The hope is to scare recalcitrant voters into casting a ballot.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024