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    Use "refusal" in a sentence

    refusal example sentences

    refusal


    1. It was barely even enough to be called a refusal, but she grabbed him by his exosuit’s front panel, swing him in an arc over her head, and threw him down through the open bridge hatch


    2. Her flat refusal made me think for a while but I guess it's anybody's right to choose the godmothers of their children


    3. Your refusal of me makes it a little harder to be good friends with Desa


    4. with the silence that comes from sheer bloody refusal,


    5. My personality at the time was being fueled by religious fanaticism and a refusal to sleep made it a more serious case


    6. She was embarrassed by his embarrassment, and seemed insulted by his refusal


    7. There was but one who insisted to press their intentions even to the extreme of knife-point, but he instantly surrendered his cause and forfeited their case at my gentle but firm insistent refusal


    8. Despite his refusal, Emily poured her energy into the cracks upon Solo Ki's swelling hands


    9. For a refusal this time could well mean the end


    10. Before the Guild Master could say anything more in refusal, he was struck by a blow from behind

    11. A writer may experience a tragic loss, and his refusal to accept the loss might result in a life of tortured but beautiful prose as he tries to work through his pain through writing


    12. I saluted him and he stared at me with my refusal ringing in his ears and then he shrugged and then took Captain Melstone to one side to discuss something


    13. Pamela remembered her refusal to take a dress she had


    14. Frank had been badly hurt by her refusal to marry him and it had shown


    15. She was like a child who couldn't be refused because she wouldn't accept refusal


    16. If the colonies, notwithstanding their refusal to submit to British taxes, are still to be considered as provinces of the British empire, their defence, in some future war, may cost Great Britain as great an expense as it ever has done in any former war


    17. Again she attempted a polite refusal, but the woman heckled her into submission


    18. Carl had tried to console Adem many times since Jean’s refusal to marry him, though Adem did not want to hear Carl’s attempted rationale of why it was ‘probably for the best


    19. Witness his refusal to bring to justice Black Panther thugs who intimidated white voters in the 2008 election


    20. Ten seconds, Zolla announced, as Jimmy’s pounding heart seemed to will his body to shake in refusal to comply

    21. An obvious impossibility, and beware if you don"t want to live there, because your refusal will 167


    22. ‘No,’ he said, more as a denial than a refusal


    23. Monique had volunteered to infiltrate the compound, although she expected the refusal


    24. Amaranthe had expected refusal or reluctance but not that statement


    25. Governor Maxwell reminded the King of his direct refusal to the ultimatums dispatched to him; further, that he sent Envoys to England, in direct opposition to orders; for they were told that all negotiations must be made to the Governor on the coast


    26. She almost injured herself laughing, before becoming concerned by my unhealthy wheezing and red face, and blunt refusal to get up from the floor for the next ten minutes


    27. My research also tells me that refusal from the man meant he had to buy her twelve pairs of gloves to hide her empty (of a ring) finger or a new dress


    28. Despite these reinforcements, Toral, that afternoon, sent out a defiant letter to Shafter, stating that he could sustain a long siege, and reiterated his refusal to surrender, save with a safe conduct for his army with full honours


    29. Thesa shuddered at the pain that his friends must have suffered because of his refusal to submit


    30. A combination of ego, stubbornness, a determination not to appear weak, macho bluster, and simple refusal to face reality trapped both presidents

    31. “So, what brings you to Costa Rica?” he queried, shrugging his shoulders at her refusal, then pinched the joint between fingertips studying, first it, then her, before sucking in another drag


    32. He was informed that refusal wasn’t an option


    33. This is why owning your refusal to forgive is the best way to


    34. Enrique Segovia, he claimed, was one of the persons responsible for the court’s refusal to hear his request for bail: a little fine-tuning with piano wire was exactly what he needed


    35. He put one into his mouth and proffered one to Ethan as well, who politely nodded his refusal, the grin unwaveringly attached on his tanned face


    36. The refusal of many federal employees


    37. Not his refusal, which Eric might have accepted


    38. The models, the baselines, data gathering, conflicts of interest because of grants, and refusal to tolerate the views of others, brought to mind The Inquisition, and the


    39. For years it was a symbol of my quiet defiance, my small refusal to be an obedient, deferent Abnegation child, and a symbol of my mother’s defiance too, even though I believed she was dead


    40. She felt that her refusal would disappoint him considerably, but she did not think it would altogether overwhelm him

    41. Had he asked Rosemary to marry him? And after what fashion had she made her refusal known? Ellen felt that she would never know this, though she was quite curious


    42. She must just be content with the fact of the refusal


    43. She wrote him the stiffest, coolest little refusal imaginable


    44. investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing; the FBI’s stonewalling and refusal to


    45. People with mental disorders often internalize their rejection or refusal expectations, and the


    46. Once, when she mentioned to Daniel about Aunt Beryl’s refusal to use her own front door, and that she had been looking for an Obeah person to put a protection spell over it, Daniel had accused her aunt of playing with fire


    47. Haman was incensed when he heard of Mordicai’s refusal to pay homage to him,


    48. Most people abroad interpreted this refusal as an arrogant,


    49. Little was said, even by his stumbling Republican opponent, of Obama’s lifelong radical left associations, of his refusal to reveal his Harvard Law School records, or the effect of his twenty years absorbing the hate America ranting of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s “God DAMN America” Trinity United Church


    50. refusal to see the snake in the rope is the necessary condition





































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    Synonyms for "refusal"

    refusal refutation denial disavowal contradiction

    "refusal" definitions

    the act of refusing


    a message refusing to accept something that is offered