Sentence examples for a disobedient from inspiring English sources

If a disobedient is punished by the law, it is not for civil disobedience, but for the recognised offences she commits, such as blocking a road or disturbing the peace, or trespassing, or damaging property, etc.

But summer is a disobedient season.

"Can someone who knows about art help us with this?" says Jake, brandishing a disobedient pen.

After de Choiseul demonstrated his willingness to shoot a disobedient man, the Tigers quickly accepted him as their commander.

The nine-foot "Man Observing Series II" (1984) stands with hands on his hips and gazes downward with a stern mien as though reprimanding a disobedient youngster.

Scott turned 40 last year, but he plays up like a disobedient toddler, determined to make a ruckus and attract attention to himself.

Even after he tweeted a prayer for Australian victory in the rugby final, a disobedient God ignored that papal knight in New Zealand's favour.

As she did in her graceful first novel, "A Disobedient Girl," Freeman delineates the divergent worlds of young and old with great sensitivity.

She even sent a disobedient student to the dean's office without a single turned head or giggle interrupting the flow of her lesson.

If a child is disobedient, a parent can respond immediately, just as a sports referee can immediately exclude a cheating player.

The persecution could be read as the paradigmatic revenge of a classically square father upon a disrespectful, disobedient hippie son.