strong-willed

Example Sentences

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It didn’t take long to recognize that the core of the hearing would be an honor dispute between two strong-willed men.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2026

As a girl, Petrou was studious and strong-willed; in a 2018 profile in The Wall Street Journal, her mother recalled Petrou getting into a heated “intellectual disputation” with their rabbi at Sunday school.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Luckily, Emily Blunt wasn’t just brave enough to turn in a decent performance in one of last year’s worst movies, but so strong-willed she called out this awful trend.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2026

Among the planned events will be a screening of Michael Ritchie’s 1969 film “Downhill Racer,” which starred Redford as a strong-willed skiing champion, a film he often referenced regarding his own relationship to artistic independence.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

Both of them overburdened and ill-equipped, weak by nature or circumstance, married to strong-willed, selfish men, addicted to the opiate of sleep.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline