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Example sentences for "recalcitrant"

Lexicographically close words:
rebut; rebuttal; rebutted; rebutting; recal; recalcitrants; recalculated; recall; recalled; recalling
  1. Mary Ann~, the title of the dea ex machina evolved from trades-unionism at Sheffield, to the utter destruction of recalcitrant grinders.

  2. Often there is another active and intelligent officer who beats time to the march on the recalcitrant hero's posteriors.

  3. The leading recalcitrant had been General Butler, who was there to make trouble and who later along bolted the ticket and ran as an independent candidate.

  4. Jesuits, says that European offenders and recalcitrant Indians in the missions were sent as a last resource to the Spanish settlements.

  5. Quite in the manner of King Charles (of pious memory), the Governor determined to arrest the recalcitrant with his own hand.

  6. So delicately had he broached what had been in his mind since the night of Eva's dinner party that before she was aware she had promised that she would do what she could to forward Burroughs' cause with recalcitrant members.

  7. As Danvers returned to his seat he was met by the recalcitrant Moore, walking carefully, and blandly indifferent to Burroughs' angry oath with which he had been greeted at the door.

  8. Had she been there for him, fully engaged in motherhood from the beginning, she believed that his personality would not have been so recalcitrant and his behavior would not have been so petulant and flighty.

  9. At the time she even sensed some external force upon her that was trying to stymie her recalcitrant will.

  10. The Government view was that armed with the effective weapons the bill provided, no difficulty would be encountered in enlisting on the side of the public interest all recalcitrant private agencies without legal action.

  11. The control which the artist exerts over his material enables him to make it expressive all through; every element conspires toward the artistic end; there are no irrelevant or recalcitrant parts, such as exist in every perception of nature.

  12. What is there about aesthetic appreciation that makes it seemingly so recalcitrant to law?

  13. Later additions to the statute were devised to terrorize the labourer, by adding stripes and branding to his punishment, if he still remained recalcitrant or absconded.

  14. In several cases it was necessary to mobilize an army against a recalcitrant magnate.

  15. In 1277, however, the king grew tired of waiting, invaded the principality and drove his recalcitrant vassal up into the fastnesses of Snowdon, where famine compelled him to surrender as winter was beginning.

  16. Summons after summons was despatched to the recalcitrant vassal.

  17. It was injudicious to press for the strict performance of villein services, lest the villein should turn recalcitrant and leave his holding.

  18. The king took the precaution of leaving some of his best warriors in England in case their services were needed against the recalcitrant barons or the Scots.

  19. Even among the recalcitrant chiefs there was a lull in their previous activity until they suddenly swept down on the American troops twelve times in succession, killing four and wounding 12 of them.

  20. Like the ebb of the ocean, his recalcitrant thought surged back again in a towering flood.

  21. A party of our young soldiers, under command of an officer, proceeded on board, removed the recalcitrant men to our ship, some of our sailors taking their place, and so both vessels continued their way to Calcutta.

  22. But, gravest and most deleterious defect of all, no authority was conferred upon the Board to compel any negligent or recalcitrant local authorities to carry out the duties imposed upon them by Parliament or by bye-laws of the Board.

  23. That the Act had been successfully administered by some two or three Vestries proved that it was quite a workable measure--so no excuse could be raised on that ground by the recalcitrant Vestries.

  24. They throw a strong light also on the early church, its recalcitrant as well as its obedient members, the quarrels and schisms that appear to have arisen even before Buddha's death.

  25. Recalcitrant priests were found in many places, whose cases caused infinite annoyance and bad blood and the Bishop of Oviedo was recluded in a convent for refusing obedience.

  26. Undoubtedly it had been the sight of Mrs. Appleboy with her small watering pot patiently encouraging the recalcitrant blades that had suggested the malicious thought to Mrs. Tunnygate that maybe the Appleboys didn't own that far up the beach.

  27. Then upon the arrival of the recalcitrant William he gathered up his papers and took down his hat from the tree.

  28. Straightway, therefore, went the tusker, leaving great holes in the mud at each footprint as if a tree had been uprooted there, gave a mighty shove to the recalcitrant log, and there was peace again in the camp.

  29. Philosophers have traced it to the doctrine of exclusive salvation, through which it seemed the duty of those in authority to coerce the recalcitrant for their own benefit, and prevent them from leading other souls to perdition.

  30. The difficulty of collecting the tithe from the recalcitrant churches was increasing, and it could not be continued permanently.

  31. If an unjust demand was resisted, the recalcitrant was excommunicated, and then had to pay for reconciliation in addition to the original sum.

  32. It was to be inscribed ineffaceably in all the local statute-books, together with all subsequent laws which the popes might issue, under penalty of excommunication for recalcitrant officials, and interdict upon the city.

  33. Persistent refusal of the oath was likewise technical heresy, condemning the recalcitrant to the stake.

  34. To be held in their seats and counted as voting affirmatively, the recalcitrant members declared an outrage.

  35. Fables were composed which described twelve people desirous of building a new house and hanging a recalcitrant thirteenth man by his garter to a limb near his cabin.

  36. Her dealings were however, of a wider scope and carried out with more histrionic embellishment than those of her sister schemer who, as may have been gathered, had her hands full with her two discontented and recalcitrant daughters.

  37. The fact that she turned haughtily away prevented her seeing an uncomplimentary look of joyful relief in her recalcitrant lover's face.

  38. He has four thousand a year," Ethel remarked in mitigation of her recalcitrant suitor's total extinction.


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