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
There was a not-so-hidden message: Surely if you take the money, you’ll follow orders, even if you think they’re wrong.
From Salon • Dec. 19, 2025
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
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
