Refractory used in a sentence

Refractory in a sentence as a noun

Well, you have to do some refractory period math, but it's doable.

In my experience, there are enough people out there with refractory depression that it might well not be.

My understanding is that for this sort of cracking, where there is no "refractory period" between cracks, the gas bubble thing is not the cause.

A distinction needs to be made between a situation that has a solution and one that doesn't. Consider refractory cancer, or a severe neuralgia.

I suspect the lack of any tactile/haptic feedback introduces a small refractory period between keys/letters.

On the plus side, I was able to master repeated ankle cracking without refractory period - So I haven't exactly wasted my life.

I tried having long conversations with climate fake sceptics, and they are totally refractory to reality and its measurement.

Refractory in a sentence as an adjective

The refractory period there is probably somewhere between 20 minutes and an hour, but I'm not convinced that is the gas bubble thing either.

It's less the vacation itself and moreover the absence of work and refractory recovery of creative and physical energies

"- Administration of placebos should be considered when a patient is refractory to standard treatment, suffers from its side effects, or is in a situation where standard treatment does not exist.

"Unlike transistors, neurons are intrinsically rhythmic to various degrees due to their ion channel complements that govern firing and refractory/recovery times.

There is a great deal of data, but that's not the same thing, and distilling that into information is an entire field of study -- complex, subtle, enormously recondite, and extremely refractory to the layman.

But it doesn't reject the hypothesis that the moon was formed by an impact:The isotopic homogeneity of this highly refractory element suggests that lunar material was derived from the proto-Earth mantle, an origin that could be explained by efficient impact ejection, by an exchange of material between the Earth’s magma ocean and the protolunar disk, or by fission from a rapidly rotating post-impact Earth.