Example Sentences

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Abdouni is invested in chronicling not only the queer scene’s existence, but also its increasing wilfulness.

From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2019

Male nonsense, he told himself, but the pressure at his back was always a godly thing, as joyous as when he had first known its wilfulness in small aircraft over the Chicago Wastes.

From Nature • Apr. 16, 2019

The same wilfulness has governed her conduct of her private life.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2011

This cinemactor invariably plays the obnoxious, precocious whiffet who upsets plans, causes heartaches by his wilfulness.

From Time Magazine Archive

His Majesty has had experience both of his wilfulness and ignorance, if of no worse.

From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva