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.

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 Meanings and Examples of STUBBORNNESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stubbornness
 n.  resolute adherence to your own ideas; 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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
4  I was wrong to attempt to deceive you; but I feared a stubbornness that exists in your character.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
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
7  But now that I see your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish whatsoever to intercede on your behalf.
Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In I
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  The avenue seemed miles long and the horse, pulling stubbornly at her hand, plopped slower and slower.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  His comrade grunted stubbornly.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
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.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
12  These grew to a crowd, who retired stubbornly.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
13  But very often, and even most often, choice is utterly and stubbornly opposed to reason.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VIII
14  He remained stubbornly silent, gazing at Weyrother's face, and only turned away his eyes when the Austrian chief of staff finished reading.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII
15  The struggle between the old views and the new was long and stubbornly fought out in physical philosophy.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER XII
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.