follow orders
Example Sentences
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When you’re young, you’re also trying to follow orders; you’re looking at the scene and I’m, like “OK, this scene, here it wants me to cry or it wants me to get upset.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026
Current and former officials describe him as an unrelenting figure who expects subordinates to follow orders without question.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025
Did he resign in quiet protest rather than follow orders that he saw as unlawful?
From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025
They will not follow orders they don't like from the new set up in Damascus.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2024
It was at the end of a difficult day— in B-block, actually—during which I’d had trouble getting some of my porters to follow orders.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
