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How to use insubordinate in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word insubordinate? Here are some examples.

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During the seven weeks he served at the fort, Fetterman grew increasingly insubordinate and desperate to prove his superiority in battle.
What shook me most, however, was the look in the men's faces, disgruntled and insubordinate looks.
It is feared that soldiers will become insubordinate and uncontrollable to an irredeemable extent.
Always excitable and often insubordinate, he required the strictest discipline.
That case concerned an officer's conviction by a court martial in India of an offence of grossly insubordinate conduct.
Some physicians may have limited patience with staff members they view as insubordinate or who do not understand their routine.
In other species, including honeybees, loyal workers assist the queen by eating the eggs of insubordinate workers who attempted to spawn.
I didn't exercise that option, because I didn't want to alienate my fellow directors and counselors by appearing insubordinate.
I supposed the racket was about an insubordinate magpie or a treed cat.
An insubordinate cuss, he knows that insubordination becomes an admirable trait in an age when the torturer's first line of defense is that he was merely following orders.
Highlighting personal failures also gives employees permission to be insubordinate.
Remembrance was sharp enough. Under questioning, he revealed a slyly insubordinate streak.
At the same time, the Supreme Court is disciplining more insubordinate judges.
It was said that Montreal's militia was both the best and the most insubordinate of all.
Removing section 43 would encourage some students to engage in insubordinate or disruptive behaviour.
But I always loved the atmosphere because I didn't see any who were insubordinate.
The staff member also acted in an insubordinate and obstructive manner during the investigation into the matter.
To do so before policy is decided by the duly elected, is neither disloyal or insubordinate.
His strength, however insubordinate it may be, remains nevertheless, a force of consentment.
It would seem that even highly staffed and secure environments have been unable to deal with her insubordinate, aggressive and threatening behaviour.
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Examples from Classical Literature
You have been insubordinate when you should not only have been orderly, but have enforced orderliness in others.
There he had half killed an insubordinate young elephant who was shirking his fair share of work.
The insubordinate artist still didn't listen to the doctor when he was told to not let anyone visit.
What if he told them that two insubordinate seamen had been roughly handled by their officers?
Nothing rude, boisterous, insubordinate, or unkind appeared from any.
In the meantime, the men grew more and more intractable and insubordinate.
He was well-educated, but of a surly disposition and insubordinate.
Usually the crews thus obtained were treacherous and insubordinate.
In a moment Miss Jemima had forgotten her insubordinate cook.
By evening, however, the insubordinate and troublesome had been quieted.
Once, when business took him across the Atlantic, he had served in an English regiment, and being insubordinate had suffered extremely.
Immortalised in the film Zulu, Hook, played by James Booth, is portrayed as an insubordinate malingerer and drunkard who only comes good during the battle.
Part of the line of the Trans-Siberian was held by freebooting Cossacks and scoundrels, only nominally subordinate to Kolchak, and often insubordinate and rebellious.
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