Example Sentences

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De Zoysa became uncompliant, muttering to PCs Davey and Still: "Please leave, please leave."

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2023

Amtrak last month warned it would send letters to uncompliant workers starting Dec. 8 in preparation for termination Jan. 4.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2021

Arrayed against these two, sons of Ireland no less than they, were Carson and Craig; Carson with his saturnine face and his swift and piercing intelligence, Craig of the burly form and uncompliant humour.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914 by Various

They could not, any one of them, allow their Sovereign to plead where an Imperial Minister could threaten the lives of uncompliant Cardinals.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by Froude, J.A.

Sonnenkamp was alarmed at this determined and uncompliant bearing.

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold