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adjective

headstrong

CEFR C1

habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition

In a sentence

Six example sentences with headstrong, each labelled with its topic.

  • The headstrong point guard kept pulling up from thirty feet after the coach had drawn the play three times.

    Basketball

  • Their headstrong drummer rewrote the outro during the take, and the producer kept it because the band had stopped arguing.

    Music

  • The headstrong younger sister ignores every warning in the first hundred pages and is proved right in the last twenty.

    Literature

  • The headstrong founder ignored three warnings from her board and launched in the very market they had told her to avoid.

    Startups

  • The film's headstrong teenager sneaks out against every rule her parents set, and the plot follows the consequences.

    Movies

  • Parents of a headstrong toddler learn to offer two choices, since a direct order will be refused on principle.

    Psychology

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