Sample sentences for RECALCITRANT

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stubborn resistance to authority

the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators

...passed, bent double, towing a recalcitrant cow over his shoulder.
Conrad, Joseph -- Tales of Unrest
Neither could he mobilize his army to go forth to war, nor could he punish his recalcitrant subjects.
London, Jack -- The Iron Heel
He had often thought of Arabella's remarks that he should have been more severe with Sue, that her recalcitrant spirit would soon have been broken.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
Like a sculptor finally dropping mallet and chisel, giving up on a recalcitrant block that will never take the shape he'd pictured.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
The longer the siege dragged on, the more it would hearten other recalcitrants, like Tytos Blackwood.
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
No longer do the forms of the world appear to move in the patterns of a living, growing, harmonious thing, but stand recalcitrant, or at best inert.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
An ironsmith flattening a sheet of recalcitrant metal.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
Evidently, they had repaid it for its recalcitrance.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
Would you say that his attitude is still what one might call recalcitrant?
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
Father said no, she shouldn't encourage Sam in his recalcitrance.
James Lincoln Collier -- My Brother Sam is Dead
"I do not think he is being recalcitrant, your honor," Meade said.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad
Only small children hate a doctor when they require his ministries, and sometimes even the most recalcitrant children can be persuaded.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
As we turned in to the driveway, my recalcitrant dog trotted along beside me, not perfectly but respectably.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
The wasted years in which he had shown no ability in school, in which he had been known as lazy, recalcitrant, without ambition, were behind him, forgotten.
William Faulkner -- Light in August
It sounds like someone's trying to shake up some of the more .... recalcitrant members of the Clave.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Fallen Angels
A word, a wave of her whip sufficed for the dog to rout out the recalcitrant sheep and send him bleating to his fellows.
Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert
Down with Downworlders, kill all recalcitrant Shadow-hunters, blab blab.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
An old man was having a fight with a recalcitrant umbrella and two nuns were being swept like sailboats toward their car.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
Annette looked at me with the complete exasperation a mom shows a recalcitrant six-year-old.
Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black

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