STUBBORN in a Sentence

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That they were invariably clean, that his were the scoured fingers of the surgeon, made his stubborn untidiness the more jarring.

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 Meanings and Examples of STUBBORN
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stubborn
 a.  unreasonably, often perversely unyielding; persistent; difficult to treat
Classic Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
1  Atlanta folks are--begging your pardon, Miss Melly--as stubborn as mules about Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  He remembered the way she had squared her shoulders when she turned away from him that afternoon, remembered the stubborn lift of her head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  I see by the stubborn look on your face that you do not believe me and my words are falling on stony ground.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  He's stubborn and he's got a mouth as tough as iron.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  But Georgia, by its stubborn resistance, had so far escaped this final degradation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
6  But I do grudge him your heart and your dear, hard, unscrupulous, stubborn mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
7  On shore the ice-tipped reeds clattered in the wind, and oak twigs with stubborn last leaves hung against a milky sky.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  That they were invariably clean, that his were the scoured fingers of the surgeon, made his stubborn untidiness the more jarring.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  Wrapping myself in my shaggy jacket of the cloth called bearskin, I fought my way against the stubborn storm.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
10  I thought to find one stubborn, at the least; but my one cogged circle fits into all their various wheels, and they revolve.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37. Sunset.
11  But Radney, the mate, was ugly as a mule; yet as hardy, as stubborn, as malicious.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
12  Her face was rosy and solid, with bright, twinkling eyes and a stubborn little chin.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
13  She perceived that her will had blazed up, stubborn and resistant.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XI
14  Edge her a little more from the sun, Sagamore," said the stubborn woodsman; "I see the knaves are sparing a man to the rifle.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
15  It were impossible to say what violent assertion the stubborn Hawkeye would have next made, in his headlong wish to vindicate his identity, had not the aged Delaware once more interposed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
Example Sentence:
1  He was too stubborn to admit that he was wrong.
2  I cannot cope with that boy; he is stubborn.
3  He is a stubborn character used to getting his own way.
4  You'll have to push hard, that door is a bit stubborn.
5  The stubborn student finally began to buckle under.
6  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.
7  The buses that failed to run were those that were temporarily stuck in stubborn, icy patches.
8  Although Susan seemed a tractable young woman, she had a stubborn streak of independence.
9  You can feel the old stubborn nonconformist spirit of the early settlers from his story.
10  She stubbornly refuses to admit the truth.
11  His jaw jutted stubbornly forward; he would not be denied.
12  He stubbornly insisted on doing it all himself.
13  The plan is ambitions: to reduce France's stubbornly high unemployment rate of ten percent.
14  This combination of stubbornness and vacillation is getting to look really creepy.
15  Bush's stubbornness on issues such as tax cuts, education policy and the creation of a medicare prescription-drug benefit has served him well.