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How to use obstreperous in a sentence

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

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His clothes are shabby, his shoes worn, but he is always ready to intervene if some of the young men become a bit obstreperous.
Most of the young people he'd come into contact with thought any music which wasn't loud and obstreperous was a waste of ears.
Some of them can be very demanding and ungrateful, even obstreperous and fractious.
The guard was armed with a long spear and a knife, the goat with only his tiny sharp teeth and his severely obstreperous attitude.
At 178 pounds was the one and only Cassius Clay, who was cantankerous, garrulous and obstreperous.
What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful?
In fact, a 1936 survey found that the WEA had created an articulate and obstreperous working-class intelligentsia.
Anyway, I'm feeling obstreperous, so what exactly should the US do in the conduct of future war?
He sticks to his mission, getting the obstreperous children into school and helping them become learners.
The obstreperous emails in question focus on Norway's economic relationship with the European Union.
Already he could hear the growing clamor of his three obstreperous children.
They are now more likely to call a product obstreperous than blame themselves for their ineptitude.
And they'll indicate whether a patient was noisy and needed medication or if they were obstreperous and perhaps needed to be placed in a straight jacket or tied to the bed.
It's very important to get used to volunteering, to being obstreperous publicly as citizens at a time when you don't have any money.
Yeah, they may have been extreme or obstreperous or this or that, but they were good.
Lots of things got in the way of that, notably the lousy economy, and secondly the obstreperous Republicans.
Steve King, an obstreperous congressman from Iowa, plans a lawsuit to try to get the president's initiative on young illegals rescinded.
Even the messiest, most obstreperous books are reduced to a litany of bullet points, or a single bullet point.
He liked to drink, colleagues say, and would occasionally get obstreperous.
They will be asked whether they were in bed with the Bloc, whether those two parties were being obstreperous.
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And presently Jan was sleeping almost as soundly as her obstreperous niece.
Their obstreperous loyalty might seem inconsistent with this unideal character, but it is only seeming.
The horse proved to be an obstreperous, balky thing, and as contrary as a mule.
In place of the noisy and obstreperous boy came the docile, soft-voiced girl.
She disposed of that obstreperous individual most summarily.
At all events, Hepzibah had fully satisfied herself of the impossibility of ever becoming wonted to this peevishly obstreperous little bell.
Little Fay was as obstreperous as Tony was disagreeably silent and aloof.
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