bullheaded

Example Sentences

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You’ll need bullheaded determination to excel in this week’s Slate News Quiz.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2025

Patterson should have died from a nasty superbug picked up in Egypt in 2015 — except Patterson is married to bullheaded epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee.

From Salon • Nov. 20, 2024

“This notion of bullheaded romantic persistence is a recurring cultural touchstone—countless movies, music and books celebrate the heroics of steadfast pursuit with admiration,” Valsthein says.

From Scientific American • Jul. 26, 2023

It will do so diminished and deracinated, a shadow of what it was meant to be, but it will go on regardless, irrefutable proof of big-time soccer’s barrel-chested, bullheaded intransigence.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2021

The eyes of the most bullheaded boys radiate a shining determination: every ounce of their attention has been trained to ferret out weakness.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr