Sentence examples for willful son from inspiring English sources

Janice Jacobs, his mother, did her best to raise a willful son, Brandon Jacobs said.

James Westbrook Pegler was born in Minneapolis in 1894, a willful son of a straitened, itinerant journalist.

She is also dismayed by what she believes was the willful denial of her son's first amendment right to practice his religion.

Thrifty by nature and necessity, she taught her son that "willful waste makes woeful want".

Damian Woetzel's Prodigal Son was a willful bad boy.

The dissenting Conservatives on the panel, alert to the risk, offered strong support for most of the other elements in the report, including a passage castigating Mr. Murdoch and his son James for "willful blindness" in failing to act sooner to curb illicit reporting practices and help bring the miscreants involved to justice.

Hilary Swank's wealthy and willful Mary hauls her young son out of school in the US and halfway across the world to teach him at an idyllic country getaway in South Africa, only to lose him to malaria on a visit to Mozambique, while Martha, a British mother played with a bashful warmth by Brenda Blethyn, loses her own son to the disease when he visits Mozambique to volunteer as a teacher.

Is Wills's blindness willful?

Or, people will have a willful ignorance to it.

"Willful is a better word".

A willful, overbearing woman, Ruth strongly disapproves of her son's affair with the slightly older Natalie.