How To Use Stubborn In A Sentence

I have a lot of my father in me and I am as stubborn as a mule. Times, Sunday Times
I'm too stubborn to admit that I'm in love with him.
Roger appeared with a plump stubborn Welsh pony, attached to a funny little cart which he gayly informed them was a "gingle. The Spanish Chest
At home, you can change stubborn minds. The Sun
Outsiders gradually brought influences like barbecue sauce and side dishes, but the core Texas values remain stubbornly intact at these old school joints: meat seasoned only with salt, pepper and smoke, and served without plates or utensils. You gonna eat that? Random musings on food and life in Orange County, California » Don’t mess with Texas

But if it shall be otherwise -- if they stubbornly, sullenly persist in cherishing and manifesting the spirit of treason, making their motto to read, Bound, but not broken, then let the severities of immutable justice be meted out to them: let them die the death. A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln
This little package of dense black fur is fearless but unaggressive, happy to please but not a pushover, a tad stubborn but a complete lovebug.
You can become your own worst enemy with that stubborn refusal to accept the inevitable. The Sun
The observers of this law may be called sociable, (the Latins call them commodi); the contrary, stubborn, insociable, forward, intractable. Leviathan
But a stubborn, argumentative child may try to draw you into too many debates as you try to establish a connection.
The presentation of this "Judas," polemicizing as it was, was probably never meant to take on the historical and theological dimensions it has, traveling through the last two thousand years and leading up to the present, but with a stubborn toughness it has endured. Robert Eisenman: Redemonizing Judas: Gospel Fiction or Gospel Truth?
Lions remain stubborn and untameable symbols of a wilderness as rightly unknowable as they themselves are.
God loves us deeply, intensely, and he cares about even the most incredibly lost and stubbornly unrepentant sheep.
I laughed at loud at her stubborn and willful spirit.
I think there will be stubborn resistance. Times, Sunday Times
Don't let this week's majorly stubborn vibes make you resistant to information about new ways of doing things.
The Savage family consists of a bunch of stubborn hayseeds that get real angry when crossed.
It is a stubborn thing resisting the call to self-annihilation, deadening pain, and compromising with what is simply wrong. Lonni Collins Pratt: The Sacred Power Of Hope
Authority is there to counteract the piggy part of the self, the part that wants nothing more than to wallow in muck, doing nothing, staying stubbornly inert and apathetic. An Education « Tales from the Reading Room
Stubborn had survived one of the worst attacks of the war, despite the loss of her aft hydroplanes and rudder, and had carried out the deepest-ever dive at the time, to an estimated 165m!
The famous graziers and other people, how well willing soever they be taken to be, will not be known of their wealth, and by miscontentment of their loss, be grown stubborn and liberal of talk. The Reign of Mary Tudor
But first and foremost, it is a waltz, and that stubborn three-four tempo should inform every bar. Globe and Mail
We have to admit that stubborn gerontocracy has been a major obstacle to reforming politics due to the aged politicians' obstinacy and narrow-mindedness.
I am trying to strike a balance between assertive and fair and stubborn and inflexible.
Charles stubbornly resists any metanarrative based on a wishful need to infuse a random and absurd universe with meaning.
My thoughts, however, stubbornly refused to cling to the issue and when a hoarse croak broke loose from high above me, I started violently.
For stubborn makeup stains use nonoily makeup remover, pretreat and launder as usual. The Royal Guide to Spot and Stain Removal
On this occasion, despite two hours’ cooking (with bicarb, salt added at the end), the chickpeas had remained stubbornly crunchy.
But it will burn, and that is what our fuel truck did, stubbornly and with thick billows of oily black smoke that would have prevented us from smothering the blaze with sand even if we had not been too tired to lift our shovels.
Try to find a way to turn her stubbornness from a weakness to a strength.
The thing that could easily be changed is the stubborn refusal to let technology play a part for referees. Times, Sunday Times
If others are stubborn, and that's likely, you'll just plant an idea in their mind, then wait till they suggest it as if it was something they just thought of.
We could've seen why Sara is so stubborn, or gotten some further insight into Hitchens' obsessive nature.
Helene got him a topflight classical guitar teacher, who found the boy stubbornly autodidactic.
He hoped his parents would not be difficult for he was not in the mood for their stubborn obstinacy.
They told me you were stubborn-necked, but I have obeyed commands. Chapter 11
The regime is crumbling fast and its proud, stubborn old President faces the imminent prospect of defeat. Times, Sunday Times
Then God sent down on him and on the stubborn unbelievers with him a thunderblast from the heavens of His power, which destroyed them all with a mighty clamour, and neither he nor any of his company set eyes on the city. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
Obvious malodour is not perceived by others although the patient stubbornly complains of its existence.
From then - thanks to the stubbornness of the Queen's back line - the match seemed to fizzle out, and by the end the scoreline probably flattered the victors.
Her eyes trailed upwards and stopped at the small stubborn cleft in his square chin.
The beach is deserted but for a stubborn few, and this Soviet edifice is now but a window to a bygone era.
They were accused of the stubborn refusal to accept Christ's Godhead and His sacrifice.
In real life characters often remain stubbornly immune; life-changing events can leave lives oddly unchanged. Sarfraz Manzoor: My family said they would boycott my wedding
Chihuahuas are also very stubborn and the "human" or babylike manner in the way many are treated by their owners just exacerbates this problem. Pets
Fleetwood that the owner of the Theatre was a "stubborne fellow," and advised that he be sent for and "bounde" -- would have given advice and information so unfriendly to their own manager, and there cannot be the slightest doubt that Burbage was "the owner" of the Theatre from 1576 to Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592
He ended up in jail because he was peculiarly stubborn, and quite possibly also stupid, but mostly because he was unlucky.
At the top the representation of women lingers at around a stubborn 15%. Times, Sunday Times
Cut grease and stubborn leftover food from plates and glasses by adding a few lemon slices or a tablespoon of vinegar to soapy dishwater.
She hated thing to be orderly; prearranged objects seemed cold and stubborn.
Also, to refuse to fold when a player knows that he or she is beat is stubbornness, not poker.
He had the round, deep-chested, big-hearted, well-coupled body of the ideal mountain pony, and his head and neck were true thoroughbred, slender, yet full, with lovely alert ears not too small to be vicious nor too large to be stubborn mulish. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
At best, you're squaring up against people calling your Emperor naked and who stubbornly refuse to read your scholarly books on his stitchwork. Does Being Exist?
Call me stubborn but once I've started something then I'm going to finish it.
Hopes of a full recovery are dashed by cancer cells' stubborn resistance to conventional treatments. Times, Sunday Times
My lifelong entanglement with pay phones dates me; when I was young they were just there, a given, often as stubborn and uncongenial as the curbstone underfoot.
Many overseas haulage firms have only third-party insurance and fight claims stubbornly. Times, Sunday Times
He was too stubborn to admit that he was wrong.
And the people who are back here now are mostly eally determined to make this work, despite the obstactles, a certain gratifying stubborness at work. Hip Hip Hooray!
His stubborn innings in difficult conditions yesterday was a victory for concentration over instinct. Times, Sunday Times
I am watching him extract stubborn weeds, while I and my big pregnant belly look on from the grass.
The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Albert Einstein
American Episcopalians maintain stubborn resistance to warnings by the world Anglican Communion that they have recklessly broken fellowship.
Set in the 17th century, it is the story of a stubborn old woman trying to keep herself and her children alive during the 30 - Years War by following armies with a cartload of scavenged goods to sell to the soldiers.
Elsinore, this time due to me and my own stubbornness, is rolling in the wind and heading nowhere in a light breeze at the rate of nothing but driftage per hour. CHAPTER XLVI
You will handle family life better and can get a stubborn relative to let the grudges go. The Sun
The spell was broken one day by a particularly stubborn fisherman who used clubs to beat his way through the grey mist.
Yetwhile my mind spins furiously with all these things I should do andshould want to do, my bodyfeels awfully stubborn about remaining perched in one spot, complaining with increased aches and stiffness about gardneing orbiking, invoking extra effort to read with eyes that can no longer bring fine printinto focus. 2008 July « Becca’s Byline
She's willful, quiet, and stubborn, but, above all, passionate.
I cannot cope with that boy; he is stubborn.
After 13 years playing the stubborn, long-pocketed and irascible Inspector Morse, this week will see the veteran actor finally wave goodbye to his most famous role.
Australian record companies appear to cling stubbornly to traditional business models.
It has been noted in the accounts of the Chicago Plan and the General College of the University of Minnesota, as well as in this brief account of the Columbia Plan, that departmentalism becomes less stubborn when cooperative courses are established. Undergraduate Work and the University of North Carolina
She was a stubborn, loyal Aries, the best kind of friend to have.
I consider her stiff, slender figure, Egyptian in its stubborn angularity. MOON PASSAGE
Some are hopeful that interbank lending rates -- still stubbornly elevated -- could start to tick down following the first extended-term TAF, which provides cash loans to deposit-taking banks. Fannie Cuts Support for Mortgage Market
Tax policy would be ruled by stubborn one-third minorities, many among them cruising for policy payoffs to drop their opposition.
The previous administration's stubborn refusal to build more prison places led it into the absurd position of early release. Times, Sunday Times
I couldn't tell if his refusal to talk was simple stubbornness.
You can also get two stubborn friends talking again. The Sun
Better that it should not have consented to motion, and have held stubbornly to all ancestral ways, than have bred that anachronic spectre. The Egoist
Her voice was soft but stubborn, her mulish chin set.
Both he and I are secretly harboring feelings for each other but are too stubborn to admit it.
Remove stubborn caramelised turkey grease from the roasting tray by filling it with a solution of biological washing powder.
When you reach a roadblock, you have three choices: Retreat, ram stubbornly into the barrier, or take a detour and continue forward.
She stubbornly refuses to admit the truth.
She replied stubbornly and cocked her chin slightly in defiance.
The plan is taking longer than hoped to produce results because of problems including corruption and stubborn resistance by the Taleban. Times, Sunday Times
At home, you can change stubborn minds. The Sun
The first is shaped by an intentional stubborn resistance. Christianity Today
At the top the representation of women lingers at around a stubborn 15%. Times, Sunday Times
The paperback stubbornly fought to stay closed because it was new and the binding had yet to be creased.
Then, when I stand up for myself (maybe not always in the best of situations), or when I act stubborn and obstinate, I fight with people.
He raised his head slowly, still unable to quash that last desperate hope clinging like a stubborn weed to his thoughts that this might be a mistake.
They also stubbornly refuse to fit into the traditional liberal versus conservative categories through which the media views the world.
Also, I think gamers can be a rather stubborn, pernickety bunch, but if a game is good then I believe it will find a place within the heart of even the most ardent traditionalist. Come Out And Play
Then the skeletons, stubborn bits of flesh and muscle still clinging to the bones, move on to the bug room.
The old man held onto his job stubbornly and would not retire.
He tossed her a smile and strode top 8qg How ironic that in her bid for ersonal creative freewqd Laura, oblivious to the receptionist's flustered dom, she'd wound up chained to the most domineering, gratitude. autocratic, stubborn man on earth. Too Many Bosses
It's also a materialistic time, and anyone with a stubborn personality will become practically immovable under this influence.
The previous administration's stubborn refusal to build more prison places led it into the absurd position of early release. Times, Sunday Times
This conversation has the effect of reviving my old questions not about the war itself — of which I disapproved from the first day, and of which my analysis hasn't varied at all — but about these strange characters whom we in France stubbornly persist in demonizing ( "princes of darkness") or ridiculing with simplistic epithets ( "neo-cons," which can also mean, in French, "neo-dummies"), but who aren't quite as uni-dimensional as they may seem. In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part IV)
His ebullience was a far cry from last week, when the quiet but stubborn premier threatened to dissolve parliament and call new elections if PASOK fared badly. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Those who dislike it do so for its stubborn unwillingness to judge the two young gunmen.
To school plodding stubbornly through the snowdrifts in short trousers with chapped knees to sit in a draughty classroom in abject fear of a teacher who had recently traversed Europe inside a tank turret and who took no prisoners with his booming voice, the result of his deafness. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
You're a stubborn, pig-headed, self-pitying man who's only thinking of himself and what will happen to him if his hands don't heal!
Working on breaking this cycle ASAP as my kiddo is as stubborn as they come. Praise The Sleep Gods And Pass The Cookies | Her Bad Mother
Do not be tempted to scrub the gloss finish of the rod itself with the scourer to remove those stubborn mackerel scales.
Stubbornly low airfares hurt the airlines, but the biggest culprit is the soaring cost of jet fuel.
We wonder if they also regret their stubborn refusal to compromise. The Sun
But any homely illusions were quickly dispelled by Turkish shrapnel and stubborn shellfire, resulting in heavy casualties.
Theological wrangles belong essentially to a pioneer people: an earnest, stubbornly honest people, whose lives are given over to a battle with the elements and the brute forces of Nature, always argufy. Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
After 8 years of a yukky stained toilet, I had decided to invest in an extra-strong 3-in-one product that had advertised itself ‘able to get rid of stubborn stains‘.
Self-control will help them appear strong, sensible, and reasonable rather than demanding, argumentative, or stubborn.
Are the Republicans just plain stubborn or do they worry that the Dems might just prevail. What to expect in Senate's Saturday health care vote
But in at least one sphere, the country remains stubbornly backward-looking: environmental conservation.
Why was she being so confoundedly stubborn about not abandoning him?
Particularly stubborn stains will guarantee you work up a sweat. The Sun
When experts like Barbara Crossette heap sarcasm on "India's colorful, stubborn loquaciousness" they fail to see that the more we ignore this supposed "loquaciousness" the more we are signaling that the only language we recognize is that of brute force. Vamsee Juluri: Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room
She is headstrong and stubborn and the character is quite strong.
Some men will hide in the coils of DNA, a few atoms that spell red hair, and they'll flare up for centuries to come like a fire in a coal seam, stubborn and inextinguishable.
She gazed upon those chiseled granite features, the sharp angle of his jaw, the stubborn chin, the hooded eyes whose flinty gaze could penetrate with spearlike precision. Earl of Durkness
You can become your own worst enemy with that stubborn refusal to accept the inevitable. The Sun
You will handle family life better and can get a stubborn relative to let the grudges go. The Sun
I'm stubborn as hell and have a very hard time backing down on my values when they're important to me.
No longer was it a stubborn, loggy fight against pressures. CHAPTER XXX
But a stubborn, argumentative child may try to draw you into too many debates as you try to establish a connection.
Lex, see what you miss with your stubborn refusal to own a T.V.?
Yet the headline figures mask systemic failure and a stubborn reluctance to confront its more obvious causes. Times, Sunday Times
Stubbornly, he shook his head, evading the assault.
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country. Edgar Watson Howe
His stubborn innings in difficult conditions yesterday was a victory for concentration over instinct. Times, Sunday Times
Power is hierarchical; the rebel challenges authority, presumes to be the defiant equal of his creator or of his king, and is convinced that his stubbornness will redeem him.
It is he that makes the sinner see all the deformity and filthiness that is within; it is he that pulleth off all the sinner's rags, and makes him see his naked and wretched condition; it is he that shows us the blindness of the mind, the stubbornness of the will, the disorderedness of the affections, the searedness of the conscience, the plague of our hearts, and the sin of our natures, and therein the desperateness of our state. The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast.
She was usually silently stubborn but was on occasion prone to emotional outbursts.
Despite the advances of rationalism, a belief in the supernatural has stubbornly remained.
Trying to approach this gentle and mannerly retired professor about what seems to be going wrong, Miller encounters the deep stubbornness at the core of his being.
Honey, stubborn is not the same as forward-thinking. 6 out of 6 fashion-forward thinkers agree: a vest simply is not a cardigan. Bury Me With The ‘Lo On | ATTACKERMAN
She ignored them stubbornly, breathing out short puffs of air.
She was usually such an easy-going and forgiving kid; it just wasn't like her to be so stubborn.
Your diplomatic skills will be stretched but you will find a way to reconcile two stubborn relatives. The Sun
Her chin took on a stubborn slant.
His jaw jutted stubbornly forward; he would not be denied.
The rage bubbled up inside of me again at his stubborn insistence.
Stubbornly, he rolled over and refused to wake, a thin rivulet of droll dripping from his chin.
Some of you remember how stubbornly they fought their machine-guns in the last war, but how they whined "Kamerad" and grovelled when you got at them. Close to the War
That's the awful irony of the dynamic: that the stubborn, idiosyncratic, self-possessed auteurs getting stiffed in their coffins wouldn't want these nitwits to finish their careers for them.
AVON, Colorado - Stubborn, sky-high flames ravaged nearly one-quarter of the pool building at Beaver Creek West Condominiums early Wednesday morning in Avon, Colorado. The Vail Trail - All Sections
When the days become old photo when the old photos become memories, we became back to back the pedestrians, along different directions, the stubborn one step away from Athens, no, no Rome, no way back.
At the sight of tank guns, the seemingly stubborn occupants surrendered almost immediately without a fight.
Stubborn, emotional and romantic, the old man stirs the feelings of the reader with his crazy love.
She has inherited her mother's stubborn streak.
On the morning of 11 February 1944, off the Norwegian coast, Stubborn sighted a convoy of seven ships escorted by four trawlers, a whaler and an aircraft.
They remain stubbornly impervious to the changes, resist gentrification and politeness. Times, Sunday Times
But throughout the past half-dozen years there has been a stubborn tendency to flirt with unrealistic ambitions. Times, Sunday Times
Not sharp and vivid like that of her father, but dim and nebulous was the picture she shaped of her mother — a saint's head in an aureole of sweetness and goodness and meekness, and withal, shot through with a hint of reposeful determination, of will, stubborn and unobtrusive, that in life had expressed itself mainly in resignation. Jack London's Story - Moon Face: Planchette pg 3 of 3
The patient feels unimportant and stubborn, and [is] ultimately noncompliant.
But isn't it maddening to see, only days later, the first stubborn weeds "intrude" on the order you created? Roger Fransecky: Let Us Give Thanks
The issue you face here seems totally behavioural: a stubborn refusal. Times, Sunday Times
I think Obama knows that single-payer is the way to go ultimately, but he also knows that your lobbyists, Big Pharma, Big Insurance and a good portion of the citizens who it would benefit simply will not have it or are too stubborn to see that it would be the answer. Obama: Canadian health care model won't work in U.S.
But his stubbornness during the last months of the war caused resentment after the war and some obloquy.
Fortunately, a more efficient system is finally on the doorstep of America's most stubborn, foot-dragging, reactionary sector—government at the local, state and especially federal levels—and its officially authorized, customer-hating agents, the Democrats and Republicans. Death of the Duopoly
He had to cancel a meeting at Camp David, complaining of a stubborn cold and hoarse throat.
His stubbornness is such that he will not cease from attacking you, either by himself or others, unless he dies. "Can the killing of abortionists be justified?"
Even when she was being stubborn and horrible and incommunicative, these women still loved her. Hot For Him
He stubbornly refused to tell her how he had come to be in such a state.
He'd assumed - been sure - he was marrying a stubborn but delicate flower, yet she was turning out to be a tigress. ON A WICKED DAWN
Family life is easier to handle as stubborn minds are ready to listen. The Sun
His business failures were due not only to his stubborn temperament and an unpredictable economy but also to his commitment to the antislavery cause. An Angry Prophet
A more efficient system is on the doorstep of our most stubborn, foot-dragging sector: government. Death of the Duopoly
It is like a monster ever unsubdued, this stubborn land that drowses in this Indian summer weather and that survives them all, the men who scratched its surface and passed. Chapter 37
he has a stubborn streak
Above us a rataplan of thunder sounded in a swollen sky that still stubbornly refused to yield its rain.
she remained stubbornly in the same position
The plan is taking longer than hoped to produce results because of problems including corruption and stubborn resistance by the Taleban. Times, Sunday Times
The thing that could easily be changed is the stubborn refusal to let technology play a part for referees. Times, Sunday Times
You and I, living in a swiftly changing technological age, stubbornly cling to what is now considered antiquated gadgetry.
Her anxiety had blinded her to the fact that his stubbornness was a direct result of hers. Christianity Today
foreigners stubbornly reluctant to accept our ways
Trouble is it's so hot it's difficult to remove those stubborn stains.
Othello, the fortitude of the place is best known to you; and though we have there a substitute of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects, throws a more safer voice on you: you must therefore be content to slubber the gloss of your new fortunes with this more stubborn and boisterous expedition. Othello, the Moore of Venice
I cannot cope with that boy; he is stubborn.
A bad argument is like a bad marriage, marked by rage, perturbation, bewilderment, and stubbornness.
Generation gap, conservation, reminiscence, pedantry and stubbornness all basically derive from that.
Their managers clung stubbornly to the narrow definition of their enterprise: they were in the railroad business.
Batty was magnificently constructive throughout but things refused stubbornly to gel up to the interval.
The two were just too stubborn to admit that they were wrong and the other was right.
There is an almost manic enthusiasm for reform amongst some, countered by stubborn resistance to change on the part of others.
There is a grain of truth here - he stubbornly refuses to accept that age matters, or there is a limit to human capabilities.
The next 5 pounds, however, were a little bit more stubborn.
It scares me that I'm capable of such psychotic, stubborn, never-ending faith and hope in this person.
The left has a stubborn strand that admires communist autocracies. Times, Sunday Times
There is a Malay saying: " It is easier to teach a stupid person than a stubborn one ".
Along with being proud and insolent and stubborn, and a whole load of other things. AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
We have followed all of the rules, so to take the nomination from him because some want to be stubborn is out of line. Exit polls: Half of Clinton's supporters won't back Obama
And although their songs are often About Stuff, U2 patented this stubbornly pervasive tone of wafty, inchoate, non-specific, quasi-spiritual yearning that has come to typify big stadium acts. Are U2 bad for Glastonbury?
The roads were wet from the sprays of the municipal cleaners and all that was left was the more stubborn of the chalky white outlines.
Call me a pedantic, stubborn, value for money freak, but don't call me unhearing.
I cannot cope with that boy; he is stubborn.
The cornucopia had stubbornly remained through her six years of checkups, gathering dust, the reds and oranges fading on the waxy peels. MINUTES TO BURN

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