How to Use obedience in a Sentence

obedience

noun
  • The group pledged full obedience to the new leader.
    — Arkansas Online, 10 Mar. 2026
  • But over the last decade, the club has added agility and obedience events open to mixed-breed dogs.
    — TIME, 15 May 2024
  • Now that is serving the central idea of obedience as a virtue.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2022
  • What is more, the actors are in complete obedience to the last line of the play.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Mat, not one for obedience, ventures out on his own as the others sleep.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Is this a health issue or a strict control-and-obedience deal?
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Buddhist monks learn the art of obedience by a process of 'living by the bell'.
    — Juliana Piskorz, refinery29.com, 20 May 2021
  • The dogs were prized by sportsmen for their obedience and hunting skills.
    — Rosa Rahimi, CNN, 26 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • This is a deterrent on paper, not a lever that shapes day-to-day obedience.
    — Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Beautiful from here—the obedience to the grid, the vying against it.
    — Mary Gaitskill, The New Yorker, 8 July 2019
  • Chronicles of far-right obedience and moral decadence don’t get much more scathing than this.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
  • The women held captive by them are made helpless by deep primal bonds of fear and obedience.
    — Roxana Robinson, TIME, 18 July 2024
  • 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
  • Arora, a father of two, told the idea for the reel came from watching men confuse obedience with love.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Gratitude for that gift should come in the form of faith and obedience, Bulger said.
    — al, 24 Dec. 2020
  • But so, too, is the prospect of military obedience to an insane order.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 13 Sep. 2017
  • French Ring sport is a dog sport involving jumping, obedience and bite work.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 2 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • In her advanced obedience training, Juliet will go off-leash and be able to think for herself.
    — Linda Marx, PEOPLE.com, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Sinclair was keen to test her kitten’s obedience and allowed Mila to have free rein of the house.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Make sure your dog has solid basic obedience and listens to you reliably.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025
  • The breed is known to enjoy events such as agility, obedience, and scent tracking to stimulate their mind and body.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The sport breeds obedience and the ignoring of physical and mental health.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2023

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