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Example sentences for "headstrong"

Lexicographically close words:
headstock; headstone; headstones; headstream; headstreams; headwaiter; headward; headwater; headwaters; headway
  1. In these veins No treacherie e're harbour'd yet, no mutinie, I ne're gave life to lewd and headstrong Rebels.

  2. Look to my Boy, he's grown too headstrong for me.

  3. We have Mr. and Mrs. Fisher who are not dismayed at the possibility of having their home occupied by a headstrong youth whose actions they cannot control.

  4. The momentary indulgence of a headstrong whim is all you think of.

  5. In any case, you could not have married this headstrong girl: she is another man's wife.

  6. You do not know how poor a thing you have anchored your heart to--how fickle and headstrong and vain a creature I have been!

  7. She would be but the more dutiful on that account; she would even--what seemed the hardest thing of all to her headstrong nature--even obey him.

  8. And there she stood, naked and exposed before her own eyes and his, stripped of her false pretexts, a vain and headstrong fool, who in very wantonness had made bonfire of their wedded happiness!

  9. By turns he was headstrong and impulsive, and then coldly calculating.

  10. You have in you the makings of a man, though yet headstrong and dour by nature.

  11. It is like trying to drive a skittish and headstrong horse, densely constructed of lamp-chimneys and window glass, down a rough cobble-stoned hill road.

  12. The headstrong nature of his race brooked no opposition, and he secretly espoused the young lady at her father's residence.

  13. The choice of this bluff, headstrong cavalier, who had done so much to provoke Prussia in 1806, certainly betokened a forward policy.

  14. Gifted with a strong vein of literary feeling and oratorical fire he united in his person the obstinacy of a Bonaparte, the headstrong feelings of a poet, and the dogmatism of a Corsican republican.

  15. He covered the richest land of the island with the most hideous desolation, thinking it better to be lord of a wilderness than of a headstrong country.

  16. Then we sat down together and narrated our experiences, I blaming myself hugely for my headstrong conduct; yet still she smiled.

  17. He is a self-willed, headstrong fellow; but I know how to manage him, and I promise you I will make him hear reason.

  18. Hatred, boys and girls, is a very ugly as it is a very headstrong fault; but as there is a good side even to a bad habit, so there is a hatred which may rise to the heighth of a virtue.

  19. And so, my headstrong daughter, it is to that strong will of thine, and the reckless courage I have sometimes chidden, that we owe our lives and our safety today?

  20. He would be a good husband and a kind one, and our headstrong second daughter will need control as well as love in the battle of life.

  21. She is a most headstrong girl," she would lament to her friends, "and is really quite beyond my control.

  22. You have always been headstrong and determined to go your own way, you have never been fit to be seen when anyone came, you have thwarted me in every way.

  23. What is the matter with my headstrong young friend?

  24. If, after all, some headstrong hardy lout Would disobey, though sure to be shut out, Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?

  25. Kosciusko, foreseeing the consequence of this rashness, ordered Thaddeus to dismount a part of his squadron, and march after these headstrong men into the forest.

  26. Why, they, after their headstrong manner, conclude that it is duty to rush on their journey all weathers; and I am for waiting for wind and tide.

  27. And she fancied, for reasons of her own, that if the headstrong lad could be brought to ask for pardon, the somewhat haughty features of the young owner of Heimra would not long remain stern and implacable.

  28. Must I tell you what a headstrong woman Miss Letitia was?

  29. Pon my soul, I wonder that headstrong man doan't doctor the cheel hisself.

  30. Will Blanchard had dwindled in his mind to the mere memory of a headstrong youngster, now far removed from the scene of his stupidity and without further power to trouble.

  31. Until then she had never quite believed in the sincerity of Mary's affection for this unscrupulous, headstrong girl, and it hurt her to see Mary take the estrangement so to heart.

  32. She is so headstrong she might run away from home and do that very thing if she happened to feel like it.

  33. The Arabs broke and scattered, and the headstrong Askaris dashed after them in mad pursuit.

  34. Some of his more headstrong warriors did not hear or neglected to obey the signal, and fell victims to their own recklessness.

  35. This prince, the younger of the two brothers, was a headstrong boy filled with a sense of resentment at Jugurtha's elevation to the throne and smarting at the neglect of what he held to be the legitimate claim to the succession.

  36. To the lower orders it seemed the act of a courageous champion, to the officials the wild proceeding of a headstrong demagogue.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "headstrong" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.