Example Sentences

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Though drivers are already required to pick up passengers in the short-term parking structure, some are disobeying those rules, officials said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2015

The question here is whether you should tell on other people who are disobeying this rule.

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2011

For OPA investigations have shown that out of 12,000 groceries and butchers 40% are ceiling violators, and that 70% of 500 East Coast gas stations are disobeying OPA regulations.

From Time Magazine Archive

“It is all in the large room upstairs, but if you have any designs upon it, you are disobeying orders.”

From Lord Stranleigh Abroad by Barr, Robert

And how can you pray when you are disobeying your good father?

From The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York by Hampe, Theo.