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Example sentences for "rebelliously"

Lexicographically close words:
rebelles; rebelling; rebellion; rebellions; rebellious; rebelliousness; rebellow; rebels; rebind; rebinding
  1. While she pounded Ragtime mercilessly over the little-traveled northern highways, she struggled rebelliously with stubborn arguments which only left her more and more bewildered, the more conclusive they became.

  2. How was he to know that she, too, after mailing it, had suffered as keenly as he was suffering that moment, wishing that she had employed less abrupt phrases, rebelliously regretting that she had sent it at all?

  3. The rise of twenty mile, sence sun-up," she informed him simply, then tears welled rebelliously into her eyes.

  4. She found herself wishing to be a recruit in the little army that sought to raise other ideals--but most of all she found herself longing rebelliously for the chance to have in her own life the companionship of some man like that.

  5. But the littler boy sat rebelliously up, digging combative fists into eyes that the light tickled.

  6. And, leaning dizzily back on his couch, he closed his eyes to shut in the hot and bitter tears that welled up rebelliously and threatened to fall, notwithstanding his endeavor to restrain them.

  7. He had not lived; he had within him a reserve of youthfulness, of vigor, whose surging flood now clamored rebelliously at the menace of approaching age.

  8. You have loved too much, you have beat too fast in the past months, and that is why you are breaking now, brave heart, who do not wish to die, and who strive rebelliously to beat still!

  9. Precious little danger of that here," said Dink a little rebelliously to himself, as he jogged over to the benches where the varsity subs were camped.

  10. On the way he passed the man he was replacing, returning rebelliously with a half antagonistic, half apprehensive glance at him.

  11. When McCarthy came grinning through the door, he found Dink, his legs drawn up Turkish fashion, staring rebelliously at the ceiling.

  12. When he awoke the next morning, starting rebelliously from his bed, his head was heavy, and he did not at first remember the emotions of the night, as sleepily struggling through his sweater he ran out of his entry for a hurried cup of coffee.

  13. Abruptly she rose from her seat and rebelliously demanded of the young minister, "What would you say if I should confess to you that just one thing has been clear and outstanding through all the confusion of my thoughts since this morning?

  14. She herself, now that it was over, regarded it so, though she wildly and rebelliously told herself that she would not undo it, if she could.

  15. Now that she had ceased to rebelliously question the earth, she caught sound of a gentle murmur speeding along the ground.


  16. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rebelliously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.