Thesaurus / refractory

refractory

How to use refractory in a sentence

When pure and of close hard grain it is used as a refractory for lining furnaces, especially those designed for anthracite.

ASBESTOSROBERT H. JONES

And so mother and daughter in Mr. Wilding's absence pleaded his cause with his refractory bride-elect.

At last one of the men mounted his horse, and set out with his lariat to lasso the refractory beast in true cow-boy style.

The guard-room, 8, is identified by the remains of stocks, in which the refractory were fastened for punishment or safe-keeping.

She understood literature and the beauties of poetry, but it was too late to cultivate her refractory memory.

Aratov was, however, still refractory; but Kupfer found an unexpected ally in Platonida Ivanovna.

With his stick he gave a cut to the palm of Murray's hand, just as he was wont to do to refractory pupils in the old days.

Whatever court he went to (and he was often obliged to go to restive and refractory ones) he brought them into his measures.

It is a special practice, suited to refractory cases, and the gardener is not recommended to indulge in it too freely.

So she got up, went to her refractory pupil, and lifted her forefinger by way of giving emphasis to her words.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985

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