headstrong

Example Sentences

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For her role as a young woman in conflict with her headstrong father in 1985’s “Twice in a Lifetime,” Madigan received an Oscar nomination for supporting actress.

From Los Angeles Times

Both occasionally volatile and headstrong, they share a mutual respect that outlasted any of their brief disputes.

From BBC

“We’ve celebrated our ‘diversity’ so much that we forgot all the ways we’re really the same as Americans, bound by ideals that united a divided, headstrong group of people 250 years ago.

From Washington Times

But Pica is already acutely aware of peril: The headstrong student has been taking Polaroids of young Black men and bringing them to her 35mm-focused photography course.

From New York Times

Aisha is everything you want in a heroine: cunning and headstrong, but also fallible.

From New York Times