Explore Obeys through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Obeys meaning
third-person singular simple present indicative of obey
Using Obeys
- The main meaning on this page is: third-person singular simple present indicative of obey
- In the example corpus, obeys often appears in combinations such as: obeys the, he obeys, it obeys.
Context around Obeys
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Obeys
- In this selection, "obeys" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, opponent, sung, technocrat, young, christ and government stand out and add context to how "obeys" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a technocrat obeys then you and behaviour that obeys government instruction. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "obeys" sits close to words such as abenaki, abstracted and addendum, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with obeys
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Almost immediately, he obeys. (4 words)
Karim obeys all the rules. (5 words)
Public behaviour that obeys government instruction is a duty. (9 words)
As it is helpful to look at subtraction as addition, it is helpful to look at division as multiplication of the dividend times the reciprocal of the divisor, that is When written as a product, it obeys all the properties of multiplication. (42 words)
The newspaper said the prime minister will also warn the level of restrictions for the rest of next month would depend on how well the public obeys the current lockdown in England, which is due to end on 2 December. (40 words)
In slap fighting, short of biting your mouthguard and hoping to hell that your opponent obeys the rules against clocking you in the ear, there’s little for the “defender” to do but stand there and take it. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
An impressive monster that only obeys the whims of a level 42 Destruction Warlock.
In slap fighting, short of biting your mouthguard and hoping to hell that your opponent obeys the rules against clocking you in the ear, there’s little for the “defender” to do but stand there and take it.
Min-sung obeys Young-tak to ensure access to resources, but at home Myung-hwa can’t hide her disappointment in him.
She obeys but then decides to visit his house first.
The government of Kazakhstan has openly criticised the invasion of Ukraine and obeys the US-led sanctions.
A disciple is one who obeys Christ, and not his/her own worldly agenda and pursuits, and one who sets his/her own will aside and follows God’s will, in season, and out of season.
In a country where a politician can have the last say and a technocrat obeys, then you are in deep trouble.
It is dusty, it is unlit, it obeys no traffic rules, its streets are decayed.
Public behaviour that obeys government instruction is a duty.
The man convicted in the case can be released from jail after two weeks if he obeys conditions set forth by the judge in the case.
The newspaper said the prime minister will also warn the level of restrictions for the rest of next month would depend on how well the public obeys the current lockdown in England, which is due to end on 2 December.
Almost immediately, he obeys.
By the time the angel declares that everyone in the settlement must ritualistically die—with the promise of being reborn in 400 years—everyone obeys.
Daniel Kaluuya of “Get Out” fame takes Slim from a sad-sack who obeys the rules to a man deeply in love and ready to fight for it.
He also went on to say that his company obeys the law of the land wherever it goes.
If he realized what he is he would die … God obeys him: he utters a few words and the Lord descends from Heaven at his voice, to be contained within a small host.
It is a principle that, in any society governed by law, the Executive does not pick and choose which judgement he obeys and which not.
Karim obeys all the rules.
As it is helpful to look at subtraction as addition, it is helpful to look at division as multiplication of the dividend times the reciprocal of the divisor, that is When written as a product, it obeys all the properties of multiplication.
As such, the residual strong interaction obeys a quite different distance-dependent behavior between nucleons, from when it is acting to bind quarks within nucleons.
Common combinations with obeys
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- obeys the 14×
- he obeys 5×
- it obeys 3×
- who obeys 2×
- obeys and 2×
- obeys all 2×
- obeys his 2×