Example Sentences

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Christian is at a charity event in New York when his security people inform him that back in Seattle, Ana has disobeyed his instructions to stay home and has gone out drinking with a girlfriend.

From Washington Post • Jun. 28, 2021

She’s a known mutineer whom the crew loathes and already has disobeyed a superior officer on Discovery by breaking into the lab.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2017

Lately, a steady tide of visitors has disobeyed the sign and trespassed on the austere hospitality of his house, which offers only a few folding chairs to guests.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has disobeyed all the "rules," convoluting and twirling the plastic concrete with an insolent skill, and even using that antediluvian material glass block with flair.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mama murmured her good days, but Dedd gave the chauffeur the imperious look of a mistress whose servant has disobeyed her wishes.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez