obedience
Example Sentences
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Obedience doesn’t come easily to the freethinking and endearingly eccentric title character in this beautifully observed novel set within linked Anabaptist communities around the Great Plains.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025
Obedience is the problem that will destroy us, personally and as a country.
From Salon • Jan. 8, 2025
The Times Literary Supplement said: "Bernstein's chief brilliance in Study for Obedience is the subtlety with which she shifts our perception."
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2023
Obedience training can be wonderful and exciting, she said, for some dogs and their humans.
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2023
The second and third days were a new game, called Obedience, or Being Good.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
Vocabulary lists containing obedience
The Mayflower Compact (1620)
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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 2
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"The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare, Act V
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