How to Use obedience in a Sentence

obedience

noun
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  • But over the last decade, the club has added agility and obedience events open to mixed-breed dogs.
    — TIME, 15 May 2024
  • Buddhist monks learn the art of obedience by a process of 'living by the bell'.
    — Juliana Piskorz, refinery29.com, 20 May 2021
  • Grant me Your grace to walk in obedience to Your commands.
    — Connie Rowland, Woman's Day, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Beautiful from here—the obedience to the grid, the vying against it.
    — Mary Gaitskill, The New Yorker, 8 July 2019
  • The dog was being walked by its owner, who had just taken the dog to an obedience class in the store.
    — cleveland, 13 Aug. 2020
  • The state of Texas’s demand for silence and obedience echoes that dark time.
    — Garrett Epps, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Now that is serving the central idea of obedience as a virtue.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Mat, not one for obedience, ventures out on his own as the others sleep.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The theme of blind obedience is one that Kennedy and Pelsue are happy to explore, right up to the closing of the curtain.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Gratitude for that gift should come in the form of faith and obedience, Bulger said.
    — al, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Is this a health issue or a strict control-and-obedience deal?
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The Ilongot of the Philippines have a word, bētang, that touches on all those, plus on awe and obedience.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • At a park next to the library, four dog owners took a dog obedience class under a full gray sky.
    — CBS News, 7 May 2022
  • The left today has a compulsion to force obedience again and again.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 10 July 2019
  • When the dogs board the bus, Mo does a small obedience drill, and passes out treats to reward good behavior.
    — Sydney Page, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Zeke shines at obedience and flies through agility work.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 25 Sep. 2020
  • All this pageantry feels like forced unity at a time when calls for unity feel more like calls for obedience.
    — Drew Magary, GQ, 3 July 2018
  • This dog should be taken to the vet for a health check, and also enrolled in obedience classes.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • The day began with Mass at 8, where Del Toro learned about creeds and saints and the strict rules dictating order and obedience.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Europe does not mean a kind of Brezhnev doctrine of obedience is in place, the EU argues.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2021
  • In my 1950s childhood, these lessons were about obedience.
    — WSJ, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The dog, Cooper, will go to obedience school and then for training as a service dog for Maddie to bring to school and out in public.
    — Jesse Wright, chicagotribune.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The rule of law meant nothing but total obedience to Saddam.
    — Paul Bremer and David C. Gompert, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Martin never hints that gay people exist who seek to live in obedience to the Catholic Church.
    — Eve Tushnet, Washington Post, 1 June 2017
  • In the Bible, God demanded that Abraham show obedience by killing his son Isaac.
    — Michael A. Vargas, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Her handler told her that that world didn’t reward obedience, then turned around and demanded it of her all the same.
    — Devon Maloney, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The return of fascism and the idea that obedience is good scarily comes in cycles.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2022
  • The obedience competition will take place on Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and will be streamed live on the club's website.
    — Fox News, 12 June 2021
  • Some of the girls stayed to become nuns themselves, from personal choice or out of obedience to their parents.
    — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 30 July 2024
  • Ex-students who spoke to The Courier Journal paint a picture of an environment based on strict obedience and school success above all else.
    — The Courier-Journal, 25 Sep. 2024

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