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Example sentences for "willful"

Lexicographically close words:
willen; willer; willers; willest; willeth; willfully; willfulness; willies; willin; willing
  1. You are the most willful girl I ever met," wrathfully.

  2. For a second, so piqued was I, I almost decided to ride on and leave the willful child to her own devices.

  3. And now approached Pani and the pilgrims; followed, at a distance, by the willful boy.

  4. Upon this, the willful boy who would not have Pani for his guide, entered the Morai; and perceiving the group before the image, walked rapidly to where they were.

  5. The Black Knight was a tall, black hunter, a special favorite of Leicester's, and a good but somewhat willful horse.

  6. It was the handbill offering a hundred pounds reward for the apprehension of Leicester Dodson, charged with the willful murder of James Starling.

  7. Violet, with a laugh which was calculated to madden a less passionate and willful temper than Leicester's.

  8. Before nightfall the hue and cry was in full voice, and the police were on the alert to arrest Leicester Dodson, wherever and whenever he might be found, on a charge of willful murder.

  9. In the dead of the night, or perhaps in the gray dawn when he had thrown himself upon the bed to woo sleep after a day of willful pleasure or a night of dancing and fashion, sleep would come, but bring bad dreams with it.

  10. Maria Felicia Garcia was a wayward and willful child, but so generous and placable that her fierce outbursts of rage were followed by the most fascinating and winning contrition.

  11. Pauline was a favorite of her father, who had used pitiless severity in training the brilliant and willful Maria.

  12. Willful witnessed several of these battles, and he was much impressed with the skill and bravery of the horned tribe.

  13. With these to assist him, Willful started on his journey.

  14. Willful watched this queer bird with great interest, the more so because it taught him a valuable lesson.

  15. Then he gave Willful a golden cross to protect him from harm, a magic glass to magnify even the tiniest creatures, and a curious fan-shaped instrument, by which the languages of the animal-world might be understood.

  16. Illustration] Many years ago there was a young prince named Willful, who was, as his name indicates, a very willful boy.

  17. Willful thought that he had learned from the habits of these creatures, another and valuable lesson, but he was now anxious to see something of methods of warfare among animals.

  18. Willful was so interested by these singular creatures that he determined to study their habits; so, descending from the tree he searched for the anthills.

  19. But Willful paid no heed to his father's words, and daily grew more indolent.

  20. But Lucy had imbibed all the traditions with regard to the willful Irene, and was horrified at the thought of having her now in the school.

  21. She could read and write, and had read a great many books; but all the ordinary subjects of education had been set aside by the willful child.

  22. Jenny's opponents saw in it a new defiance--a willful flaunting of offense; her friends found in it a romantic flavor which pleaded for her.

  23. She was young and ignorant; Nick Driver's daughter might well be willful and imperious.

  24. If ever he thought that he could go away and leave this willful Irish girl, whose very willfulness has caught and chained him, he knows now that the thought was a vain one.

  25. She is the one "good gift" that can crown his life, this beautiful willful woman whom once, in his ignorance, he called ONLY AN IRISH GIRL.

  26. He had not meant to say one word of love to her--this willful girl who makes so light of him and his devotion; but, standing so close beside her in this tender gray twilight, impulse masters his judgment.

  27. And so she grew up; her extreme beauty palliating to the household all her little willful faults, and the admiration she excited filling the very crevices of her heart.

  28. They returned home young women, while their little sister, the willful child, Frances, was but eight years of age.

  29. Between the Scylla of his master's wrath, and the Charybdis of his willful little mistress, poor Jupiter knew not which way to steer.

  30. The willful fairy seemed to take a malicious delight in teasing the life out of poor Archie.

  31. The book contains many blunders in copying, and there are a few cases of willful omission.

  32. When we come to the other disputed epistles, those to the Thessalonians, the Ephesians, the Philippians, and the Colossians, I confess that the doubts of their genuineness seem to me the outcome of a willful dogmatism.

  33. His hope was that, willful and unstable as he knew her to be, he'd eventually win her by his persistence and devotion.

  34. He was more willful than I had anticipated.

  35. If a willful light came sometimes in her eyes he did not see it.

  36. Marian undoubtedly wheedled her father a good deal in the manner of handsome and willful daughters.

  37. She was high-spirited as a girl, a little willful and impulsive, but with the best heart in the world.

  38. Actual sin is any willful thought, word, deed, or omission contrary to the law of God.

  39. Could he not be very angry, entirely neglect prayer, or pray with willful distraction; could he not be proud, covetous, etc.

  40. War can come only by the willful acts and aggressions of others.

  41. God grant we may not be challenged by acts of willful injustice on the part of the Government of Germany.

  42. God grant that we may not be challenged to defend them by acts of willful injustice on the part of the Government of Germany!

  43. Lieutenant Edward Wells, you are charged with the willful murder of Harry Hayward, a captain in the United States service.

  44. Slight as this is, it will prove to be sufficient if it always comes--if no case of disobedience or of willful wrong-doing of any kind is allowed to pass unnoticed, or is not followed by the infliction of the proper penalty.

  45. Even the willful obscurity of the modern poetry can be paralleled by the riddling of Cuchulain and Emer.

  46. What had been willful stubbornness in his childhood crystallized, later in life, into dogged persistence.

  47. When he went home he published a book filled with deliberate misstatements and willful exaggerations of the traits of the American people.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "willful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advised; arbitrary; autonomous; bigoted; calculated; conscious; considered; deliberate; designed; discretionary; disobedient; dogged; dogmatic; elective; fanatical; free; froward; gratuitous; headstrong; heady; independent; insubordinate; intended; intentional; intolerant; intractable; irresponsible; knowing; lawless; licentious; meant; mulish; mutinous; naughty; nonconforming; obstinate; offered; opinionated; optional; overzealous; persevering; pertinacious; planned; precipitate; proffered; projected; proposed; purposeful; rampant; recusant; restive; spontaneous; stubborn; studied; sullen; tenacious; unaccountable; unasked; unbidden; unbridled; unchecked; uncontrolled; uncurbed; undisciplined; undutiful; unforced; ungoverned; uninfluenced; uninvited; unregenerate; unrestrained; unsolicited; unsought; voluntary; volunteer; wayward; wildcat; willful; willing