obstinate

In a sentence

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

• My training partner is obstinate about the same route every morning, even when ice makes the riverside path treacherous.

  Fitness

• For thirty years he stayed obstinate, publishing the same theory while every new dataset pointed somewhere else entirely.

  Science

• The chef remained obstinate about butter, ignoring investors who wanted the menu rebuilt around cheaper oils and lighter sauces.

  Cooking

• The obstinate center refused to move his game beyond the paint, even after the league made the three pointer everything.

  Basketball

• The mayor was obstinate about the tram, holding the vote four times until the council finally gave in.

  Politics

• The obstinate conductor kept his slow tempo through every rehearsal, ignoring the soloist who begged for a little air.

  Music

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains obstinate. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More GMAT words

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