STUBBORNNESS in a Sentence
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66 example sentences for STUBBORNNESS, such as:
1. His comrade grunted stubbornly.
2. She stubbornly refuses to admit the truth.
3. These grew to a crowd, who retired stubbornly.
4. He was too stubborn to admit that he was wrong.
5. He stubbornly insisted on doing it all himself.
2. She stubbornly refuses to admit the truth.
3. These grew to a crowd, who retired stubbornly.
4. He was too stubborn to admit that he was wrong.
5. He stubbornly insisted on doing it all himself.
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Meanings and Examples of STUBBORNNESS
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stubbornness
n. resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires
n. the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome
Classic Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
1 I love you, your courage and your stubbornness and your fire and your utter ruthlessness.
2 But it was too much trouble to explain to Kennicott's kindly stubbornness that she was a practical housekeeper as well as a flighty playmate.
3 For again Starbuck's downcast eyes lighted up with the stubbornness of life; the subterranean laugh died away; the winds blew on; the sails filled out; the ship heaved and rolled as before.
4 I was wrong to attempt to deceive you; but I feared a stubbornness that exists in your character.
5 There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.
6 For stubbornness won't do here,' said his sister 'What it wants is, to be crushed.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
7 But now that I see your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish whatsoever to intercede on your behalf.
8 He held her fan in one hand and his untouched plate of barbecue in the other and stubbornly refused to meet the eyes of Honey, who seemed on the verge of an outburst of tears.
9 The avenue seemed miles long and the horse, pulling stubbornly at her hand, plopped slower and slower.
10 His comrade grunted stubbornly.
11 His dulled senses wished him to swoon and he opposed them stubbornly, his mind portraying unknown dangers and mutilations if he should fall upon the field.
12 These grew to a crowd, who retired stubbornly.
13 But very often, and even most often, choice is utterly and stubbornly opposed to reason.
14 He remained stubbornly silent, gazing at Weyrother's face, and only turned away his eyes when the Austrian chief of staff finished reading.
15 The struggle between the old views and the new was long and stubbornly fought out in physical philosophy.
Example Sentence:
1 This combination of stubbornness and vacillation is getting to look really creepy.
2 Bush's stubbornness on issues such as tax cuts, education policy and the creation of a medicare prescription-drug benefit has served him well.
3 She stubbornly refuses to admit the truth.
4 His jaw jutted stubbornly forward; he would not be denied.
5 He stubbornly insisted on doing it all himself.
6 The plan is ambitions: to reduce France's stubbornly high unemployment rate of ten percent.
7 He was too stubborn to admit that he was wrong.
8 I cannot cope with that boy; he is stubborn.
9 He is a stubborn character used to getting his own way.
10 You'll have to push hard, that door is a bit stubborn.
11 The stubborn student finally began to buckle under.
12 With infinite difficulty, for he was stubborn as a stone, I persuaded him to make an exchange in favor of a sober black satin and pearl-grey silk.
13 The buses that failed to run were those that were temporarily stuck in stubborn, icy patches.
14 Although Susan seemed a tractable young woman, she had a stubborn streak of independence.
15 You can feel the old stubborn nonconformist spirit of the early settlers from his story.