obeys
- present tense form of obey (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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To take the stately omnibus Where all together sit; Each takes his ticket in his hands, Obeys the Company's commands, And pays his pence for it.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 21, 1891 by Various
And strange to tell, the sea below, Where countless vessels come and go, Obeys the little boat on high Through all the centuries sailing by.
From Graded Memory Selections by Hughes, Charles C.
But chief at sea, whose every flexile wave Obeys the blast, the aerial tumult swells.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
Reprove not him, whose tongue, with grief distraught, Obeys not, in dark storms, the helm of thought!
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
Is it choice when man Obeys the might of destiny, that brings The awful hour?
From The Bride of Messina, and On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy by Schiller, Friedrich
