How to use stubborn in a sentence

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• John Doe's old age and stubborn aversion to new ideas make him a curmudgeon of a candidate.From the entry curmudgeon
• I've had dealings with Jo in the past, and found her very stubborn.From the entry dealings
• The accused's stubborn silence outraged the prosecutor.From the entry outraged
• That dog is so blasted stubborn.From the entry blasted
• The old man's stubborn piggishness kept him from acknowledging that his wife was a better driver than he, even after his license was revoked.From the entry piggishness
• He had a stubborn, resistive nature.From the entry resistive
• The Brabantians used to be known as rather reticent and stubborn, in contrast to their more open and louder Northern neighbors, i.e. the Dutch.From the entry Brabantian
• I use nibby soap to scrub stubborn soil from my hands.2024, Raven Hanna, One Cacao Tree, page 130. From the entry nibby
• The more profound and consequential the issue, the more stubborn our denial.2023 September 18, Charles Hugh Smith, The Peculiar Power of Denial. From the entry consequential
• Some TikTokers have even claimed that certain frozen beauty pops cleared their stubborn acne.2022 April 20, “Are Cryofacial Tools Safe To Use At Home?”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2023. From the entry cryofacial
• I made a last stubborn attempt to pour logic on the troubled waters.2010, Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson, Variable Star. From the entry lash oneself to the mast
• Recognising that we are strong-minded is not the same as accepting ourselves to be stubborn or obstinate.2009, Emmy van Deurzen, Everyday Mysteries: A Handbook of Existential Psychotherapy, →ISBN. From the entry strong-minded
• This, once again, is the art of introspection and stubborn, self-pleasing originality.2005, The Guardian, editorial, 6 Oct 2005. From the entry self-pleasing
• They love to play, They are mule stubborn, but not disobedient.1955, John A. Saylor, M.D., Time: The Offended Bulldog, page 8. From the entry mule-stubborn
• Volatile yet stubborn, self-interested yet a modern Joan of Arc—criticisms of Richardson were as contradictory as they claimed her to be.2020, Lindsay Harroff, “From Sitting In to Sitting Out: Gloria Richardson and the 1963 Cambridge Movement”, in Lesli K. Pace, Sean Patrick…. From the entry Joan of Arc
• England made hard work of the win against a stubborn and well-organised Iceland but were the better and more positive side.2020 September 5, Phil McNulty, “Iceland 0-1 England”, in BBC Sport. From the entry make hard work of
• “There’s no sense in you paupering yourself because you’re too stubborn to take my money.” ¶ “I’m not paupering myself.”2017, Naomi Rawlings, Love's Christmas Hope, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry pauper
• Of course Don Cherry, the other formidable Kingstonian cheerleader, remains a stubborn member of the Kingston hockey revisionists.2012, Paul Henderson, How Hockey Explains Canada: The Sport That Defines a Country, →ISBN. From the entry Kingstonian
• The check-raise looks very bluffy (although you know better than to check-raise bluff on these types of boards against stubborn opponents).2010, Tri Nguyen, Aaron Davis, The Poker Blueprint. From the entry bluffy
• Their registers characterised him as a stubborn, repentless young man, very ambitious and manifesting even signs of atheism.1992, Cicily Kodiyan, Eminent Russian Scientists, page 24. From the entry repentless
• Hardly anything can shatter the daydreams of the buckaroo or buckarette like an old stubborn school horse with sides like iron.1991, Gwynne Spencer, Places to go with children in the Southwest, Chronicle Books Llc, →ISBN. From the entry buckarette
• Were those “stubborn stickers” really so annoying?1987, The Age of Johnson, number 18, AMS Press, page 426. From the entry peely
• They do not infiltrate, hence are not malignant, but they repullulate in a most stubborn manner if any portion is left.1907, Chevalier Jackson, Tracheo-bronchoscopy, Esophagoscopy and Gastroscopy, page 114. From the entry repullulate
• As I am a Shandonger, notorious for their stubborn northern accent, the comment I often received was 'How come you don't have an accent?'2024, Yue Zhao, Qian Gong, “The unbearable weight of the accent”, in Sender Dovchin, Qian Gong, Toni Dobinson, Maggie McAlinden, editors…. From the entry Shandonger
• No one but you can convince my heart, the stubborn, skeptic heart of mine to break the bad habit of breaking away.2019, “Heart’s Confessions” by Rawda el-Haj, quotee, translated by Adil Babikir, Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology, Lincoln, Neb.…. From the entry skeptic
• Martin is very stubborn and for him to put Emile on the Judi Dench might look like a slight on his judgment.2009 April 12, Mark Rutter, “Aston Villa v Everton: Observer readers preview the game”, in Guardian. From the entry Judi Dench
• Tall, blue-eyed, this proud and stubborn Genoese seaman first visited Portugal, proposing his scheme for a westerly voyage in search of the Indies.2002, Jaime Suchlicki, Cuba: From Columbus to Castro and Beyond, Potomac Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 13. From the entry westerly
• "Still country and stubborn," says Betty Etheridge (right) describing her hometown of Wanchese, a small fishing village at the southern end of Roanoke Island.1987 October, Charles E. Cobb, Jr., “North Carolina's Outer Banks”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 503. From the entry Roanoke Island
• She so obviously enjoyed every second of the concert that only the most stubborn crab could not have been warmed by her charm.1983 April 30, Sue Hyde, “Expanding Worldviews”, in Gay Community News, page 12. From the entry crab
• Switch costumes, you ignominious pretender.” “You're more stubborn than a senate mule.” “Grits, grits, grits!” “Tarnation!” “Fancy pants, big-city lawyer.” “I say you are incorrect, sir.”2023 September 21, Grace Parra Janney, “Something Borrowed, Something Green” (9:35 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4…. From the entry tarnation
• In Tokyo, that led to accusations of abuse after a German pentathlete and medal contender, Annika Schleu, was assigned a stubborn horse that refused to jump at all.2021 November 3, Victor Mather, “Modern Pentathlon Drops Equestrian Competition After Abuse Claims”, in The New York Times, archived from…. From the entry pentathlete
• In recent months, both Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice and Captain America: Civil War have offered up big, flashy superhero standoffs as feuds of ideology and stubborn will.2016 May 23, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses”, in The Onion AV Club…. From the entry standoff
• Among these are Prunus X-disease, pear decline, elm phloem necrosis, apple proliferation, the witches'—broom diseases of paulownia and jujube, and the greening and stubborn diseases of citrus.2012, Karl Maramorosch, Mycoplasma Diseases of Trees and Shrubs, page 35. From the entry X-disease
• That said, I always make sure I have a large Hob ferret with me because sometimes he will shift stubborn rabbits where the Jills have failed.2006, Steve Caple, Rural Pest Control^([9]), Troubador Publishing Ltd., →ISBN. From the entry jill
• He shut the door behind him and leaned back against it, his face pokering up in that relentlessly neutral expression she recognized as his personal take on stubborn .2006, Terry McLaughlin, Make-believe Cowboy, page 164. From the entry poker up

Meaning of stubborn

1. adjective Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting; persistent in doing something.
2. adjective Physically stiff and inflexible; not easily melted or worked.
3. noun Stubbornness.

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Questions about stubborn in a sentence

How do you use stubborn in a sentence?

Stubborn is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “People are pretty stubborn about their political beliefs, so why bother arguing?”

What is a short sentence with stubborn?

“He had a stubborn, resistive nature.”

What does stubborn mean?

Stubborn means refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting; persistent in doing something.