How to use obey in a sentence

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• It is no defence to plead that you were only obeying orders.From the entry plead
• She said you had not to talk to me, but you don't have to obey her anymore.From the entry have to
• Show us your lordly might: demonstrate that you can order people and get them to obey.From the entry lordly
• I must obey the dictates of my conscience.From the entry dictate
• The significance of a Galois extension is that it has a Galois group and obeys the fundamental theorem of Galois theory.From the entry Galois extension
• Thus, crawlers that do not obey a website’s posted robots.txt file may be breaching the site’s ToS.2020, Alan Mislove, Christo Wilson, “Practitioner’s Guide to Ethical Web Data Collection”, in Brooke Foucault Welles, Sandra…. From the entry TOS
• “Fresh off the assembly line, got out before her owner could program her to obey?”2019, Anthea Sharp, The Perfect Perfume and Other Tales. From the entry jetter
• Scattering amplitudes that obey the laws of locality and unitarity do emerge from amplituhedra.2017 July 29, Anil Ananthaswamy, “The new shape of reality”, in New Scientist, number 3136, page 31. From the entry amplituhedron
• You can arrest people on “failure to obey,” it’s a humble.2015 April 29, “David Simon on Baltimore’s Anguish”, in The Marshall Project. From the entry humble
• And these suffragetic ladies we won't obey, but a woman always gets her own sweet way.2014, Len Platt, Tobias Becker, David Linton, Popular Musical Theatre in London and Berlin. From the entry suffragetic
• The officers, hoping to make their troops obey orders, massacred whole prisonfuls of captives.2011, Will Whitaker, The King’s Diamond, HarperPress, →ISBN, page 311. From the entry prisonful
• But it is ineffective in respect of certain people who do not obey the precipient will.2008, Heinrich Heppe, Reformed Dogmatics, page 89. From the entry precipient
• They create stories that make people want to belong, not just images that might help them obey.2007, Emmanuel Gobillot, The Connected Leader, →ISBN. From the entry connected
• He still has that dadlike tone that means I must obey him, so I sit.2007, Laura Preble, Queen Geeks in Love. From the entry dadlike
• OK, so there are several years that I was Karma's butt-monkey for not obeying that simple rule.2006 May 14, “Karma gives me a handjob”, in Pissing and Moaning. From the entry butt monkey
• Never “tremble and obey” if doing so will damage or destroy your business in China.2005, James McGregor, One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China, page 153. From the entry tremble and obey
• He unrealistically expected her to respect and obey (“love”) him like his biodaughter Annie.2001, Peter Gerlach, “Accept Your Stepfamily Identity”, in Stepfamily Courtship: How to Make Three Right Re/marriage Choices…. From the entry biodaughter
• I'm really TRYING to be helpful and to be square and obey the law of the pack.1998 May 26, MegaLiz, “Any gay Subgeniuses!?”, in alt.slack.devo (Usenet). From the entry compassionize
• He whipped off his hat and sat down quickly, as if obeying a severe schoolmarm.1997, Lydia Adamson, A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock: An Alice Nestleton Mystery, Dutton, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry unschoolmarmish
• This moral imperative requires sons to obey their parents and take care of them during old age.1996, Robert Strom et al., "Intergenerational Relationships in Taiwanese Families" in Changing Family Roles and Feminism, Man Singh Das…. From the entry moral imperative
• This gives his commands an oraclelike quality that compels the actors to obey.1988 December 23, Tom Valeo, “Carne Vale”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2020. From the entry oraclelike
• In this case, the method examines whether predicates obey certain higher-level relations, such as transitivity or inversivity.1985 July 15, Pat Langley, Herbert A[lexander] Simon, Jan M[ikołaj] Zytkow, Douglas H. Fisher, “Some Other Discovery Systems”, in…. From the entry inversivity
• RAVEN—masked swordmistress from a land where women rule and men obey.1983, Samuel R[ay] Delany, Tales of Nevèrÿon, Bantam Books, →ISBN, back cover. From the entry swordmistress
• It is blessworthy to obey the divine plan and its representatives on Earth, he says.1979, Ralph S. Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, No room for man: population and the future through science fiction. From the entry blessworthy
• The request, "Chest your cards, please," or an equivalent, should be obeyed promptly.1969, Conde nast publications, Vogue's book of etiquette and good manners, page 71. From the entry chest one's cards
• Hence the faithful christians will readily obey Christ, who is the ruler of justice in the community.1967, Francis Xavier Murphy, Politics and the Early Christian, page 65. From the entry christian
• However, let that turn out as God wills; I must obey the law and make my defence.1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics)…. From the entry turn out
• Now come with me and watch Number 17 obey my extra-sensory perceptions.1953, Ian Fleming, “The High Table”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 71. From the entry extra-sensory perception
• Entering an election year, no Congress obeys a second-term President whose popularity is on the skids.1938 June 27, “Work Undone”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 May 2008. From the entry on the skids
• The slant-eyed man was small, but the great hippocephalic bird was there to see he was obeyed.1927, H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. From the entry hippocephalic
• A literal, simple soul that obeyed to the letter the slogan of the Anti-Saloon League.1925, Benjamin De Casseres, Mirrors of New York, page 79. From the entry bootleggery
• All feared and obeyed him; to use his roads we must have his countenance.1922 (date written; published 1926), T[homas] E[dward] Lawrence, “(please specify the page)”, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph…. From the entry countenance
• Sanity appeals and argues; our rulers persevere in their customary porkishness, while we acquiesce and obey.1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 22, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus. From the entry porkishness
• When the boss gives me an order I obey it—if I possibly can.1920, Harold MacGrath, chapter 26, in The Drums of Jeopardy. From the entry nix
• Newland and his wife had had no idea of obeying this injunction; but Mrs.1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC. From the entry muffin
• I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.1917, Thomas Hardy, At the Word ‘Farewell’. From the entry quick
• Thou shalt be upperest of my house, and to the commandment of thy mouth all people shall obey.2020, Jacobus De Voragine, Wyatt North, The Golden Legend. From the entry upperest

Meaning of obey

1. verb To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.
2. verb To do as one is told.
3. verb To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.).

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Questions about obey in a sentence

How do you use obey in a sentence?

Obey is used as a verb. For example: “Soldiers are trained to obey.”

What is a short sentence with obey?

“obey the rules”

What does obey mean?

Obey means to do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of.