Example Sentences

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Some Senate veterans have still to hear the new message, and, more than any other factor, senatorial balkiness has held up the flow of nominations.

From Time Magazine Archive

His friends are displaying a new balkiness, his enemies a new boldness.

From Time Magazine Archive

When they refuse to cooperate with a mother getting ready for the evening, she should be alert for more than ordinary balkiness and attempt to sympathize with whatever is bothering them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Knowlton tested the feed of his automatic, which, since its balkiness in the fight with the Peruvians, he had kept carefully oiled and free from the slightest speck of rust.

From The Pathless Trail by Friel, Arthur O. (Arthur Olney)

And I, bein' a Hammond, with some of the Hammond balkiness in me, I set my foot down as hard as his.

From Keziah Coffin by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby