How to Use prideful in a Sentence

prideful

adjective

• This is a prideful team that knows it was dealt a bad hand this year.
  — Colton Pouncy, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
• This is a prideful team that knows it was dealt a bad hand this year.
  — Colton Pouncy, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
• But in that moment, again, this is a group of prideful guys.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• Back on the playing field hearing the prideful chants of Texas Fight.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 24 Mar. 2020
• Both teams are so good and stocked with prideful players, what is left in the tank for Game 7?
  — Lori Nickel, USA TODAY, 15 May 2022
• Both teams are so good and stocked with prideful players, what is left in the tank for Game 7?
  — Lori Nickel, USA TODAY, 15 May 2022
• Both teams are so good and stocked with prideful players, what is left in the tank for Game 7?
  — Lori Nickel, USA TODAY, 15 May 2022
• Both teams are so good and stocked with prideful players, what is left in the tank for Game 7?
  — Lori Nickel, USA TODAY, 15 May 2022
• Both teams are so good and stocked with prideful players, what is left in the tank for Game 7?
  — Lori Nickel, USA TODAY, 15 May 2022
• Both teams are so good and stocked with prideful players, what is left in the tank for Game 7?
  — Lori Nickel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2022
• That, again, was a bridge too far for the prideful former player.
  — Dan Freedman, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
• The two men have known each other for decades and both are hard-charging, prideful and brash.
  — chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2017
• The two men have known each other for decades and both are hard-charging, prideful and brash.
  — Philip Rucker, Washington Post, 13 July 2017
• And God help the prideful actor who would dare butcher the work of William Shakespeare in front of him.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2022
• Each woman took the stage to share their thanks and was met by the crowd with prideful tears and hopeful clapping.
  — Lea Donenberg, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2024
• Just the like the reputation of this region, these kids are tough, bright and prideful.
  — Justin Barrasso, SI.com, 4 Sep. 2019
• Rich remains far too prideful to snatch a petty spot at the table.
  — Connor Grossman, SI.com, 14 July 2017
• But this isn’t: Peters is prideful, self-aware, and owns his mistakes.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 16 Dec. 2017
• Troye Sivan’s prideful call to arms and coming out story.
  — Paris Close, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2017
• Grit and Grind wasn’t just a clever, prideful expression.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2020
• The standout here is Aquaman, portrayed as a prideful lord of Atlantis that just wants to be liked.
  — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 29 July 2022
• The standout here is Aquaman, portrayed as a prideful lord of Atlantis that just wants to be liked.
  — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024
• The women and men that do hair in this city are prideful people that wake up willing to serve others.
  — Scott Talley, Freep.com, 1 Apr. 2022
• My cousin is very prideful and shuts down any criticism.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 17 Feb. 2022
• Yes, there was an element of prideful bravado, that no one else should have it.
  — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2022
• As someone who has a prideful demeanor, this can be challenging.
  — Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 26 Dec. 2025
• There was no backlash to Ceferin’s words, no prideful defensiveness.
  — James Horncastle, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
• Our elderly are hurting & too prideful to say anything.
  — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
• He was too hurt to go, and probably too prideful.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
• For the Connecticut Sun and its fans, the past is prideful, the future is murky.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025