obeyed

Example Sentences

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Six merchant vessels obeyed direction from U.S. forces to reverse course and re-enter an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman, Centcom said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Military law establishes a strong presumption that military orders are lawful and must be obeyed.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2025

Staff informed the agents that they did not have permission to enter the school and ordered them to leave the area, which they obeyed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2025

Specifically, the researchers tested whether their hypothesized mathematical rules were obeyed by the structures in the database, which guided them toward principles that known structures were highly likely to follow.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024

That girl, whoever she’d been, had told the Shetani Go, and, without hesitation, it had obeyed.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray