Example Sentences

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The problem is that the public, disobediently giggling over their social media accounts, reckon they’ve already got the scoop without needing to see the film.

From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2016

Ignatius snapped more vigorously, but again the point slid disobediently back out of sight.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

At the first word of this proposition, the sailors turned disobediently away.

From A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas by Loviot, Fanny

She had disobediently left her father's house, to obey him here.

From The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid by Hardy, Thomas

Then, before him, at his feet, he saw an extremely small live thing, only several inches long, a young weasel, that, like himself, had disobediently gone out adventuring. 

From White Fang by London, Jack