How to Use strong-willed in a Sentence

strong-willed

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• Of course, strong-willed Claire puts up a fight, but Jamie won’t relent.
  — Amy Wilkinson, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2024
• From the outside, your fans think of you as a very strong-willed person, in your art.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 Aug. 2024
• Jacob teams up with a strong-willed young girl named Maisie.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2023
• Gayle is strong-willed, independent and lives her life on her terms.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2023
• Nash plays Bertie, Elvis’ strong-willed mother figure who runs his day-to-day life and is the only one who can go challenge Elvis.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 1 Mar. 2023
• Belle is bright and curious and passionate and strong-willed.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
• In her three-plus decade career, many of her characters have been strong-willed women.
  — Alex Gonzalez, NBC News, 2 July 2024
• Princess Bridget von Ascheberg is regal and strong-willed.
  — Michael Stillwell, townandcountrymag.com, 28 May 2023
• Aided by a strong-willed coach, these aspiring basketball players do their best to rise to the top.
  — Men's Health Editorial, Men's Health, 14 Aug. 2023
• Pat and Jimmy are two very strong-willed people who are looking for the same thing, which is ultimately to win.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 15 July 2024
• Running backs coach Anthony Lynn, Ekeler’s head coach with the Chargers, filled in some blanks about the 5-foot-9, strong-willed player.
  — Ben Standig, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
• Tenacious and strong-willed, Kat is hyper-focused on her career.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 1 Jan. 2025
• Dynamic and daring, Fragile is the work of a group of strong-willed musicians willing to come to blows over their music.
  — Darryn King, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
• For the better part of the last 15 years, Elizabeth Gillies has made a career out of playing sassy, snarky, strong-willed women on television.
  — Max Gao, Variety, 16 July 2024
• Gracie is strong-willed like her mother — no-nonsense, somewhat tough.
  — Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 8 Jan. 2025
• And then there’s 10-year-old Hamid and baby Hana, caught between a responsible but distant dad and a strong-willed mom trapped in a life she was never meant to have.
  — Lauren Wissot, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2024
• Stiller had wanted someone strong-willed and energetic, someone who could make Helly an engine of the show.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
• Walnut was a graceful, strong-willed bird, if a tad antisocial.
  — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2024
• Known to be competitive, those born under Aries are courageous, strong-willed and carefree.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024
• Especially when the star of that show is a strong-willed individual like Mr. Trump.
  — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
• No-pull harnesses are great for pets who haven't quite mastered walking nicely on a leash or for pet parents who don't have the upper body strength to wrestle with a strong-willed pooch.
  — goodhousekeeping.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• In the sequel, the story again focuses on the strong-willed Ginger, who with rooster Rocky now has an equally strong-minded daughter, Molly.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2024
• Rodriguez’s character, a strong-willed sportswriter, says that Bumble is fake — the opposite of real life.
  — Erin Carlson, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2024
• Foster’s Danvers more explicitly doesn’t suffer fools, but Reis’ Navarro is just as strong-willed in her way.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Jan. 2024
• Foster’s Danvers more explicitly doesn’t suffer fools, but Reis’ Navarro is just as strong-willed in her way.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 19 Feb. 2024
• Her aides do not issue any statements without Feinstein’s sign-off, and describe her as strong-willed even in her diminished state.
  — Annie Karni, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023
• Parents with Gen Alpha kids may not be surprised since this age group is known to be curious, strong-willed (they have been compared to honey badgers for a reason), and tech-savvy.
  — Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 20 Oct. 2024
• Anne was Henry’s second wife, a strong-willed, worldly woman whose refusal to become the king’s mistress pushed him to break with Rome and launch the English Reformation.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023
• And yet there was a growing sense that that confidence, that supreme self-belief, had become something more stubborn than secure, more willful than strong-willed.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
• Bernhardt’s strong-willed personality showed up both in her stage career and in her personal life.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023

Last Updated: 1 Mar 2025