Use obedient in a sentence | example usage from the newswires

Editorial »

How to use the word obedient in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

Filter by category:

21 results found

Our mission as Christians is always to be obedient and pray — and right now that means pray for the people in Ukraine and those in authority. – Tim Wildmon	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I don't know how to answer that one, but Mario is ... obedient … I just make sure everything is available. He goes to the boys and girls club in our neighborhood. He helps out. He's not like secluded in the house away from everything but … I know all his friends. I know who he talks to on the phone. – Zipporah Collins	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They expired from what he called ‘punishments,’ he expected them to be completely obedient and carry his babies in a basement of a row house where he had no need to hear them scream or complain. He administered these ‘punishments’ through beatings and electric shocks. He would call them weak. But his intention wasn’t to kill them. He wanted to train them to have a perfect race in his basement. He wanted to have babies and raise them with no other contact from the outside world. That’s what he kept repeating during their captivity. – Chuck Peruto	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves and the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem. – Howard Zinn	added by Normando 5 years ago
She was religious, but a very normal person as well. She was a very hardworking and submissive student. She never created any problem in the class. She was an obedient girl. I cannot even imagine how she could murder people. – Nisar Hussain	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I am not perfect. No one is, but I am forgiven and I love my Lord and must be obedient to him and to the word of God. – Kim Davis	Found on CNN 8 years ago
That does mean civil disobedience, it means we are obedient to a power that is not only higher than the current government, but a power that was the basis of our government. – Governor Huckabee	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It means we are obedient to a power that is not only higher than the current government, but a power that was the basis of our government. – Governor Huckabee	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Kids died because they were asked to stay still, if I stay obedient and listen to what grown-ups tell me to do, it will damage me, so I now speak my mind. – Choi Yun-ah	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Every fiber in my being wants to run away from this – but if I do I’m not being obedient to the Lord, i need to stand up for righteousness and this is something I cannot walk away from. – Chaplain Modder	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Now, it is finally clear that we struggled on Maidan not against Yanukovych. He was just a cruel and obedient marionette, moscow was preparing to the liquidation and tearing Ukraine apart long before the victory of Maidan. They were expecting the fall of Yanukovych and accelerated the course of events. – Petro Poroshenko	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Education is an ideological tool, it is (now) being used to raise an obedient generation that will serve the government. – Sakine Esen Yilmaz	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing. – Mary McCarthy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
She is a wife who is notable in her house; she is a wife who beareth children; she is a wife whose husband is as her life; she is a wife who is obedient to her lord. The wife is half the man; a wife is man?s dearest friend; a wife is the source of his religion, his worldly profit, and his love. He who hath a wife maketh offerings in his house. Those who have wives are blest with good fortune. Wives are friends, who, by their kind and gentle speech, soothe you in your retirement. In your distresses they are as mothers, and they are refreshment to those who are travellers in the rugged paths of life. – Mahabharata	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls. – Edward Abbey	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. – Jane Austen, Mansfield Park	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, We lie. – Simonides, Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. – William Frank Buckley, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. – Jane Austen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics. – Newt Gingrich	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path. – Real Live Preacher	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Our mission as Christians is always to be obedient and pray — and right now that means pray for the people in Ukraine and those in authority.

– Tim Wildmon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don't know how to answer that one, but Mario is ... obedient … I just make sure everything is available. He goes to the boys and girls club in our neighborhood. He helps out. He's not like secluded in the house away from everything but … I know all his friends. I know who he talks to on the phone.

– Zipporah Collins

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They expired from what he called ‘punishments,’ he expected them to be completely obedient and carry his babies in a basement of a row house where he had no need to hear them scream or complain. He administered these ‘punishments’ through beatings and electric shocks. He would call them weak. But his intention wasn’t to kill them. He wanted to train them to have a perfect race in his basement. He wanted to have babies and raise them with no other contact from the outside world. That’s what he kept repeating during their captivity.

– Chuck Peruto

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves and the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.

– Howard Zinn

added by Normando
5 years ago

She was religious, but a very normal person as well. She was a very hardworking and submissive student. She never created any problem in the class. She was an obedient girl. I cannot even imagine how she could murder people.

– Nisar Hussain

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I am not perfect. No one is, but I am forgiven and I love my Lord and must be obedient to him and to the word of God.

– Kim Davis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

That does mean civil disobedience, it means we are obedient to a power that is not only higher than the current government, but a power that was the basis of our government.

– Governor Huckabee

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It means we are obedient to a power that is not only higher than the current government, but a power that was the basis of our government.

– Governor Huckabee

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Kids died because they were asked to stay still, if I stay obedient and listen to what grown-ups tell me to do, it will damage me, so I now speak my mind.

– Choi Yun-ah

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Every fiber in my being wants to run away from this – but if I do I’m not being obedient to the Lord, i need to stand up for righteousness and this is something I cannot walk away from.

– Chaplain Modder

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Now, it is finally clear that we struggled on Maidan not against Yanukovych. He was just a cruel and obedient marionette, moscow was preparing to the liquidation and tearing Ukraine apart long before the victory of Maidan. They were expecting the fall of Yanukovych and accelerated the course of events.

– Petro Poroshenko

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Education is an ideological tool, it is (now) being used to raise an obedient generation that will serve the government.

– Sakine Esen Yilmaz

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.

– Mary McCarthy

added by anonymous
10 years ago

She is a wife who is notable in her house; she is a wife who beareth children; she is a wife whose husband is as her life; she is a wife who is obedient to her lord. The wife is half the man; a wife is man?s dearest friend; a wife is the source of his religion, his worldly profit, and his love. He who hath a wife maketh offerings in his house. Those who have wives are blest with good fortune. Wives are friends, who, by their kind and gentle speech, soothe you in your retirement. In your distresses they are as mothers, and they are refreshment to those who are travellers in the rugged paths of life.

– Mahabharata

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

– Edward Abbey

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

– Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, We lie.

– Simonides, Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

– William Frank Buckley, Jr.

added by anonymous
14 years ago

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

– Jane Austen

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

– Newt Gingrich

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

– Real Live Preacher

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Discuss these sample sentences with the community:

0 Comments

Notify me of new comments via email.

Editorial »

How to use the word obedient in a Sentence?

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

21 results found

Discuss these sample sentences with the community:

0 Comments

Are we missing a good definition for obedient? Don't keep it to yourself...

Word of the Day

Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?

The Web's Largest Resource for

Definitions & Translations

A Member Of The STANDS4 Network

Free, no signup required:

Add to Chrome

Free, no signup required:

Add to Firefox

Browse Definitions.net

Quiz

Are you a words master?

an alphabetical list of names and addresses