Example Sentences

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But it is also a counterpoint to City’s more chancy, feather-footed movements, football that seems almost pigheadedly light and airy, a style that is relentlessly luminous on a point of dogged principle.

From The Guardian • Dec. 17, 2018

“It’s one of those things, there were a few numbers in that group where I was pigheadedly trying to go beyond what was possible for me. But isn’t that life?”

From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2016

The answer was no, yet despite sharp reminders from the obstreperous colonies and increasingly vehement critics at home, London marched pigheadedly toward war.

From Time Magazine Archive

I do not as yet hold pigheadedly to it.

From At the Villa Rose by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

His companion pigheadedly derided the fact because his own ears were not sufficiently keen to have detected the sound himself.

From The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest by Cullum, Ridgwell