REFUSAL in a Sentence

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408 example sentences for REFUSAL, such as:

1. He refused to appear nude in the film.
2. She refused to accept that there was a problem.
3. The governor refused to accept Cox's resignation.
4. I refused to go along with their pathetic charade.
5. We both refused to put our signatures to the agreement.

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 Meanings and Examples of REFUSAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
refusal
 n.  act of refusing; denial of anything demanded
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He therefore made his demand with the awkwardness of a proud man who will not admit to himself that he is stooping; and he was not much surprised at Hale's refusal.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  It was this refusal of food that worried Ellen and Mammy more than anything else.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  But after Uncle Peter's refusal to drive her, he remained in Atlanta for longer and longer intervals.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  The stout refusal had been like a slap in the face of the furious North and retaliation had come swiftly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
5  She was in reality reflecting that a declaration would take some time to make, and that Selden must surely appear before the moment of refusal had been reached.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
6  She pondered, half-way between yielding and refusal.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  When that poor Afro-American was murdered, the whites excused their refusal of a trial on the ground that they wished to spare the white girl the mortification of having to testify in court.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In IV
8  The woman grumbled a refusal to do part of her duty when she had not been permitted to do it all, and started back to her interrupted task of weeding the garden.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XX
9  Edna and her father had a warm, and almost violent dispute upon the subject of her refusal to attend her sister's wedding.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIV
10  The ground for his refusal was a failure on my part, one Saturday night, to pay him for my week's time.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  'Don't wound Monsieur Sitnikov by a refusal,' commented Anna Sergyevna.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  I composed a splendid, charming letter to him, imploring him to apologise to me, and hinting rather plainly at a duel in case of refusal.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
13  The rider, whose figure seemed familiar to Rostov and involuntarily riveted his attention, made a gesture of refusal with his head and hand and by that gesture Rostov instantly recognized his lamented and adored monarch.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
14  Rostov had not seen him since his proposal and Sonya's refusal and felt uncomfortable at the thought of how they would meet.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XIII
15  I have received a refusal from Countess Rostova and have heard reports of your brother-in-law having sought her hand, or something of that kind.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence: (198 in 14 pages)
16  The governor refused to accept Cox's resignation.
17  She refused to accept that there was a problem.
18  The administration coyly refused to put a firm figure on the war's costs.
19  Embassy security personnel refused to admit him or his wife.
20  He refused on principle to agree to the terms of the treaty.
21  We both refused to put our signatures to the agreement.
22  Trade sanctions were imposed against any country that refused to sign the agreement.
23  They have refused to allow UN troops to be stationed in their territory.
24  I refused to go along with their pathetic charade.
25  She refused to answer questions about her personal finances.
26  He refused to appear nude in the film.
27  The actress refused to appear naked in the bedroom scenes.
28  She refused to come down squarely on either side of the argument.
29  In a dramatic gesture, the prime minister refused to attend the meeting.
30  The audience was very partisan, and refused to listen to the points she was making in her speech.