How to use refusal in a sentence

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• Any refusal to salute the president shall be counted as an effrontery.From the entry effrontery
• The League was hampered by the U.S.'s refusal to join and its member states' unwillingness to impose sanctions on foreign countries.From the entry league
• Inquiries have typically been met with silence, deflection, or abrupt refusal to engage.2019 November 24, Michael Lee, “Jimmy Butler boos, Josh Richardson buckets and a reunion for both players that answered a few lingering…. From the entry dot-connection
• In this totally unexhaustive list, we bring you some of the most controversial manglings and refusals.2015 September 16, Damien Gayle, “To sing or not to sing: a history of national anthem gaffes”, in The Guardian. From the entry unexhaustive
• However, this refusal of Jabbar to acknowledge Geevarghese is highly revealing.2015 October 30, M.T. Ansari, Islam and Nationalism in India: South Indian contexts, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry Geevarghese
• It is flamboyant yet unmemorable, like a screen saver, its refusal to freeze insuring instant amnesia.2012, A. Krista Sykes, Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural Theory 1993-2009, →ISBN. From the entry junkspace
• In those years, refusal of a party-membership card was very hazardous to one’s health.2010 August 6, Tom Pattantyus, “From red boxers to tea partiers”, in The Santa Clarita Valley Signal, Santa Clarita, Calif., →OCLC, page…. From the entry party-membership card
• Refusal to drink was also an indication of guilt, in which case the accused was executed.2000, James E. Christie, Juju, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, part III (War), page 423. From the entry sassywood
• This should preclude continued refusal of visas to dissidents and lead to release of those already imprisoned.1974 October 20, Robert C. Toth, “Soviet Jews React Cautiously on Emigration”, in Los Angeles Times, volume XCIII, Los Angeles, Calif.…. From the entry refusednik
• The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.1902, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's Second State of the Union Address. From the entry invite
• Facebook’s only Dutch factchecker has quit over the social network’s refusal to allow them to highlight political lies as being false.2019 November 27, Alex Hern, “Facebook's only Dutch factchecker quits over political ad exemption”, in The Guardian. From the entry factchecker
• This last element is crucial because much of the Kekistani subculture revolves around the refusal of the “politically correct”.2019, Tommaso Venturini, “From Fake To Junk News: The data politics of online virality”, in Didier Bigo, Engin Isin, Evelyn Ruppert…. From the entry Kekistani
• Actions cannot be guaranteed if dialoguers are blinded by refusal to change from mistrust to trust, from suspicion to recognition.2014, Oliver O. Nwachukwu, Those Challenging Cracks of Secularism: In and Beyond. From the entry dialoguer
• Wilson for his partial refusal to comply with Potsdam orders.2013, Kevin O’Keefe, A Thousand Deadlines. From the entry hyphen
• Perhaps her refusal to marry him would be the shot across the bows Jack needed to help him face his demons.2013, Lucinda Riley, chapter 28, in The Midnight Rose, London: Macmillan, →ISBN; republished London: Pan Books, 2014, →ISBN, page 379. From the entry shot across the bow
• Feeling of refusal is towards poor people, towards those who do not have a way out of their situation.2011, Xavier Mínguez López, “Local literature in a global world? Globalisation, exclusion and multiculturalism in Catalan literature for…. From the entry aporophobia
• It is all free play here, a refusal to pragmatize.2010, Susan Neiman, Slow Fire: Jewish Notes from Berlin, →ISBN. From the entry pragmatize
• S.C. has shielded them with bureaucratic delay and the refusal to rule on our petition and bring them to account.”2007 February 28, Lisa W. Foderaro, “State Agency Criticizes Con Ed for Poor Performance in Two Westchester Windstorms”, in New York Times. From the entry negligency
• Richard's refusal to ontologize evil is theologically correct.2007, D. Stephen Long, Tragedy, Tradition, Transformism: The Ethics of Paul Ramsey, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry ontologize
• Notice that at Turn 9 the teacher reformulated Clinton's unqualified refusal as a prereadiness rather than an unwillingness.2005, Helena Austin, Bronwyn Dwyer, Peter Freebody, Schooling the Child: The Making of Students in Classrooms, page 129. From the entry prereadiness
• Ultimately, however, even that recognition is ambiguified in Maria's refusal to confront the party responsible for her poisoned pregnancy.2002, Linda S. Myrsiades, Splitting the Baby: The Culture of Abortion in Literature and Law, Rhetoric and Cartoons. From the entry ambiguify
• Perhaps a third category is required — nonvoluntary sterilization, or sterilization in the absence of the prospective sterilizee's consent or refusal.2000, Carol C. Donley, What's Normal?: Narratives of Mental & Emotional Disorders, page 79. From the entry sterilizee
• The government was offering the company a fortune, and threatening it with antirobot legislation in case of a refusal.1950, Isaac Asimov, I, Robot. From the entry antirobot
• The Circuit Court should have been moved for a repleader; had they refused, such refusal is assignable for error.1926, Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States, page 912. From the entry repleader
• The vatnyk was holding a ten-liter can of water, one of the soldiers asked him to light the stove, he muttered a refusal and left.2023 December 17, Szczepan Twardoch, “Darkness over Donbas: Nine stories about war”, in The Point. From the entry vatnyk
• On the other side of this double refusal, he is a deject—a ghostly placeholder of the abject; the stray anti-locus of the negative.2020, Weird Mysticism: Philosophical Horror and the Mystical Text, page 110. From the entry deject
• Many fan blog posts argued that writers of Sleepy Hollow betrayed its Ichabbie shippers through their refusal to fully consummate the relationship.2017, Evan Jeremy Johnson, "But The Crowd Was Not Satisfied: Blackface Minstrelsy And Lynching As Fandoms Of The Remediated Black Body"…. From the entry Ichabbie
• Fortuitously, the Soviet delegate was not in attendance, having begun a boycott previously over the UN’s refusal to seat a delegate from Communist China.2015, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America, Threshold Editions, →ISBN, page 54. From the entry Communist China
• Consider the refusal of blood products by Jehovah's Witnesses, the forgoing of medical care by Christian Scientists, or the avoidance of psychiatric care by Scientologists.2013, Harold G. Koenig, Spirituality in Patient Care, 3rd edition, Templeton Foundation Press, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry Asatruan
• He said that with any jobs and training the Scia’new would have first right of refusal and that is crucial for the small band.2012 May 8, Pirjo Raits, “Scia'new First Nation looks at aquaculture business”, in Sooke News Mirror. From the entry Scia'new
• Laboratories were to be contrasted with the private shrines of "secretist” philosophers and Hermetics whom Boyle criticized for their refusal to communicate in public.2011, Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump. From the entry secretist
• But in an age of starchitecture, Erickson's refusal to adopt a signature look kept him from achieving the kind of recognition he deserved.2009 May 22, Christopher Hume, “Arthur Erickson's great works lift our spirit”, in Toronto Star. From the entry starchitecture
• It was popularized as the first stage of grief, and quickly expanded to include refusal to confront any bad news or disturbing ideas.2007 February 11, “No facts, just emotion”, in Washington Times, retrieved 11 Jun 2013. From the entry denial
• Acts and talk that induce breachful conduct (such as a refusal to negotiate with or participate in bouts sponsored by one's promoter) may be tortious.1990, West's Federal Supplement (First Series), volume 742, page 774. From the entry breachful
• The refusal of the national march committee to help local groups pay off their debts is alienating to local and national foundations.1988 February 14, Judy Andler, Angela Bowen, Meani McAlister, Nancy Moniz, Nancy Wechsler, Hillary Smith, John Roberts, “Return The…. From the entry unresponsiveness
• As collective bargaining was going poorly, the Union membership had approved the implementation of an "unstrike" campaign, which included a refusal to wear uniforms.1985, Canadian Labour Relations Boards Reports - Volume 9, page 328. From the entry unstrike
• He bowed and wished Audra a pleasant good night, heading jauntily, if a little listingly, toward the door, completely unaffected by her refusal of him.1984, Eleanor Hodgson, Norah Parker, Wild Splendid Love, page 256. From the entry listingly
• She obtruded herself upon the Queen; she protested her party views; she asked for petty favours, and attributed the refusals to the influence of Abigail.1934, Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times, volume II. From the entry obtrude
• Would not her refusal to do so be craven flight from the new reality which faces her, a kind of desertion or slackerdom?1920, Granville Stanley Hall, Morale, the Supreme Standard of Life and Conduct. From the entry slackerdom

Meaning of refusal

1. noun The act of refusing.
2. noun Depth or point at which well or borehole drilling cannot continue.

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Questions about refusal in a sentence

How do you use refusal in a sentence?

Refusal is used as a noun. For example: “Your refusal to carry out your duties resulted in your sacking.”

What is a short sentence with refusal?

“Richard's refusal to ontologize evil is theologically correct.”

What does refusal mean?

Refusal means the act of refusing.