REFRACTORY in a Sentence

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Example sentences for REFRACTORY, such as:

1. The sewer, for example, was refractory to every itinerary.
2. The refractory horse was eliminated from the race when he refused to obey the jockey.
3. This part of the Course was usually lightened by several single combats between Biddy and refractory students.

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 Meanings and Examples of REFRACTORY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
refractory
 a.  stubborn; unmanageable; obstinately resistant to authority or control
Classic Sentence:
1  During the bustle Jo had scarcely spoken but flown about, looking pale and wild, with her things half off, her dress torn, and her hands cut and bruised by ice and rails and refractory buckles.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
2  So Meg wrestled alone with the refractory sweetmeats all that hot summer day, and at five o'clock sat down in her topsy-turvey kitchen, wrung her bedaubed hands, lifted up her voice and wept.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
3  The sewer, for example, was refractory to every itinerary.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—BRUNESEAU
4  He guessed, likewise, by induction, that Porthos was taking his revenge for the defeat of Chantilly, when the procurator's wife had proved so refractory with respect to her purse.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS
5  This part of the Course was usually lightened by several single combats between Biddy and refractory students.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
6  Some of these were settled by the men-at-arms with brief ceremony; the shafts of their battle-axes, and pummels of their swords, being readily employed as arguments to convince the more refractory.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  She turned as if to appeal to the good sense of the others against a refractory child while Aunt Julia gazed in front of her, a vague smile of reminiscence playing on her face.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
Example Sentence:
1  The refractory horse was eliminated from the race when he refused to obey the jockey.
2  "It would be unethical and reckless to provide end-stage refractory ovarian cancer patients outside a clinical trial with BMN 673 at this early stage of development," says company spokesperson Debra Charlesworth.