obeyed

Example Sentences

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The broader biographical facts are obeyed, but “Amadeus” is fundamentally ahistorical, and sometimes implausible: It is to be trusted only as television.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

I’d obeyed and failed to hit my Activity Goals for several days.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Indeed, the characteristic feature of a country ruled by law is the shared understanding that court orders will be obeyed without the necessity of employing force or other modes of coercion.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2025

Specifically, the researchers tested whether their hypothesized mathematical rules were obeyed by the structures in the database, which guided them toward principles that known structures were highly likely to follow.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024

At times like this a person obeyed everything in a hurry.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen