DISOBEY in a Sentence
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23 example sentences for DISOBEY, such as:
1. The soldier disobeyed an order.
2. You are disobeying the regulations, my friend.
3. He faced a court martial for disobeying orders.
4. His dad would beat/knock/kick the shit out of him if he disobeyed.
5. Laura's mother told her to stay inside, but she disobeyed and went out.
2. You are disobeying the regulations, my friend.
3. He faced a court martial for disobeying orders.
4. His dad would beat/knock/kick the shit out of him if he disobeyed.
5. Laura's mother told her to stay inside, but she disobeyed and went out.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DISOBEY
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disobey
v. refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 Princess Mary, alarmed by her father's feverish and sleepless activity after his previous apathy, could not bring herself to leave him alone and for the first time in her life ventured to disobey him.
2 He had managed people for a long time and knew that the chief way to make them obey is to show no suspicion that they can possibly disobey.
3 His Majesty the Emperor and King protects them, and considers no one among you his enemy except those who disobey his orders.
4 The doctor said he must have fresh air and if he wants us to take him out no one dare disobey him.
5 This was the first time Morrel had ever so spoken, but he said it in a tone of paternal kindness, and Julie did not dare to disobey.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
Context Highlight In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
6 I knew that I was preparing for myself a deadly torture, but I was the slave, not the master, of an impulse which I detested yet could not disobey.
7 And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
8 To fight, that was to disobey the law, that was to risk his head, that was to make at one blow an enemy of a minister more powerful than the king himself.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In 5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS
Context Highlight In 5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS
9 But the men disobeyed my orders, took to their own devices, and ravaged the land of the Egyptians, killing the men, and taking their wives and children captive.
10 But the men disobeyed my orders, took to their own devices, and ravaged the land of the Egyptians, killing the men, and taking their wives and children captives.
11 Aunt Hester had not only disobeyed his orders in going out, but had been found in company with Lloyd's Ned; which circumstance, I found, from what he said while whipping her, was the chief offence.
12 Both she and my son disobeyed me in marrying; therefore I have no interest in their households.
13 He had never once disobeyed or allowed turbulent companions to seduce him from his habit of quiet obedience; and, even when he doubted some statement of a master, he had never presumed to doubt openly.
14 And this is certain, that where things hard to execute are ordered to be done, the order must be enforced with sternness, since, otherwise, it will be disobeyed.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: Chapter XXII.—That the severity of Manlius Torquatus and ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: Chapter XXII.—That the severity of Manlius Torquatus and ...
15 You are disobeying the regulations, my friend.
Example Sentence:
1 His dad would beat/knock/kick the shit out of him if he disobeyed.
2 Her pupils often got the rough edge of her tongue when they disobeyed her.
3 Laura's mother told her to stay inside, but she disobeyed and went out.
4 The soldier disobeyed an order.
5 Doctors are working round the clock to sterilize those who disobeyed the one child policy.
6 Huck regularly disobeyed Miss Watson's any rule and stricture upon his behavior: he wouldn't wear shoes, no matter what she said.
7 He faced a court martial for disobeying orders.