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

And I must come at correspondences so disobediently carried on.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Richardson, Samuel

And as it was with Jarvis, so will it be with every one who acts disobediently.

From Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. by Parker, Richard Green

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