WAYWARD in a Sentence

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10 example sentences for WAYWARD, such as:
1. That wayward child is very hard to teach.
2. The reluctance to go home was not confined to wayward men.
3. I have been a grumpy, frumpy, wayward sort of a woman, a good many years.
4. He was conscious of, but could not apprehend, their wayward and flickering existence.
5. He seemed a mere automaton, galvanized into moving and speaking by the wayward Eustacia's will.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of WAYWARD
wayward
 a.  resistant to guidance or discipline
Classic Sentence:
1  The reluctance to go home was not confined to wayward men.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  I have been a grumpy, frumpy, wayward sort of a woman, a good many years.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
3  I cannot say at what stage of my grief it first became associated with the reflection, that, in my wayward boyhood, I had thrown away the treasure of her love.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
4  It is probable that the agitated citizen has within his circle at least one inarticulate rebel with aspirations as wayward as Carol's.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  Cora was seated nigh them, a calm and amused looker-on; regarding the wayward movements of her more youthful sister with that species of maternal fondness which characterized her love for Alice.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
6  He seemed a mere automaton, galvanized into moving and speaking by the wayward Eustacia's will.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
7  He was wild, wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the handling of large sums of money.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
8  He was conscious of, but could not apprehend, their wayward and flickering existence.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
9  Moreover her father, though excessively fond of her, treated her always as a toy; with the result that, as she grew to years of discretion, she became wholly wayward and spoilt.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
Example Sentence:
1  That wayward child is very hard to teach.