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How to use rejection in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Rejection means the act of rejecting. Example: “Haredi Judaism is a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.”

Examples of rejection by meaning

nounThe act of rejecting.

  • My offer was met with rejection

More sentences with rejection

  • Haredi Judaism is a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.From the entry stream
  • My wounded pride never recovered from her rejection.From the entry wounded
  • The form-letter rejections laughed at all my hard work.From the entry laugh at
  • In near-universal rejection of his cold-heartedness, James’ critics responded with a full-throated, Greta Thunbergian “How dare you!”2019 October 24, Fraser P. Seitel, “LeBron and the limits of social responsibility”, in O’Dwyer’s, volume 33, number 7, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry Greta Thunbergian
  • Co-transplantation of autologous MSCs delays islet allograft rejection and generates a local immunoprivileged site for graft survival.2016 January 13, “Insulin-Producing Cells Differentiated from Human Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells In Vitro Ameliorate…. From the entry immunoprivileged
  • Transbutches embody a third space (with others) between the uncritical celebration of “womanhood” and its rejection entirely.2014, Jen Manion, "Transbutch", Transgender Studies Quarterly, Volume 2, Numbers 1-2, May 2014. From the entry transbutch
  • Regrettably, this rejection of sphexishness is not that great an argument.2013, Stephen D. Hales, “Freedom”, in This is Philosophy: An Introduction, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, paragraph…. From the entry sphexish
  • Unfortunately I took the rejection personally and replied in my own fear of rejection.2010, George Pontius, Grace over the Long Run. From the entry spokeslady
  • Thus, any event in the rejection region leads to rejection of the null hypothesis.2010, Chris Spatz, Basic Statistics: Tales of Distributions, →ISBN, page 180. From the entry rejection region
  • Now it turns out that practically speaking a given rejection function induces only two rejection regions.2006, William A. Dembski, No Free Lunch, →ISBN. From the entry rejection region
  • In fact, it seemed to carry a great charge of rejection.2003, Richard Hoggart, Everyday Language and Everyday Life, page 95. From the entry carry corn
  • The entreaties of a lover and the rejection of the heroine lend charm to the stanza.2002, N. P. Unni, Makers of Indian Literature: Amaruka, Sahitya Akademi, page 32. From the entry entreaty
  • The modernist rejection of hierarchy is accompanied by certain unacceptable forms of levelisation and new inequalities.2001, N. N. Vohra, Culture, Democracy And Development In South Asia, page 19. From the entry levelisation
  • It is human to have experienced losses, defeats, put-downs, snubs, rejections, criticisms, and discountings.1997, Luciano L'Abate, The Self in the Family, page 131. From the entry discounting
  • He had secured scorn and rejection for her instead of exalted duchesshood!1985, Kimon S. Neophyte, Xenos, Kabelkarnimf, →ISBN, page 205. From the entry duchesshood
  • If counterpart theory calls for the rejection of some popular modal principles, that needn't worry us.1983, David Lewis, Philosophical Papers, volume 1, page 45. From the entry counterpart theory
  • Wrong or Miss Wrong reports a series of romantic rejections while failing to see any pattern.1982 January 18, Georgia Dullea, “The Pattern of Picking the ‘Wrong’ Partner”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry Miss Wrong
  • Several different methods have been developed to handle unshreddable objects, including ballistic rejection and metal traps.1976, Sanitation industry yearbook, volume 13, page 102. From the entry unshreddable
  • Design of such larynxes might permit a quick solution to the problem of tissue rejection.1968 April 25, John E. Bordley (witness), Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1969: Hearings…. From the entry larynx
  • The editor . . . returned the manuscript with a rejection slip.1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or…. From the entry rejection slip
  • The rejection slip was so tactfully worded that he felt kindly toward the editor.1909, Jack London, chapter 11, in Martin Eden. From the entry rejection slip
  • Authors of newspaper editorials tied the use of D4 to what they imagined was the rejection of Irish identity.2021 October 19, Serena Nanda, Richard L. Warms, Culture Counts: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, SAGE Publications, →ISBN. From the entry d4
  • There is nothing left wing about alternative medicine, the rejection of scientific research or ostensibly anti-authoritarian stances against state regulation.2021 October 20, Vashti Fox, “It’s time to confront the anti-vaccination far right”, in Red Flag, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2021. From the entry conspiritualism
  • A very strong indication that you have made the wrong choice is if you receive a desk rejection.2016, Timothy Clark, Mike Wright, How to get Published in the Best Management Journals, page 170. From the entry desk rejection
  • Unfortunately, “hopeium” only creates false expectations that, in many cases, lead us to rejection and loss of the sale.2015, Dan S. Kennedy, Kim Walsh-Phillips, No B.S. Guide to Direct Response Social Media Marketing, Entrepreneur Press, →ISBN, page 239. From the entry hopeium
  • Some parents, feeling too hurt by the push-off or taking their teenager’s rejections too personally, choose to make themselves unavailable.2014, Lisa Damour, “The Emotional Whiplash of Parenting a Teenager”, in Motherlode: Adventures In Parenting. From the entry whiplash
  • That unleashed the flood of a weekful of rejection.2014, Dee Walker, The Winner's Curse, page 219. From the entry weekful
  • You might have Kakorrhaphiophobia, the fear of failure and rejection.2013 October, Michael Buzzelli, “Oh, don't be such a phobe”, in Equal Magazine. From the entry selaphobia
  • Abrahamism arose in an artificially Abrahamized Europe as a schizophrenic rejection of the incontrovertible excesses of religious Abrahamism.2013, Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya, The Dharma Manifesto, page 172. From the entry Abrahamize
  • Brony communities invented ‘bronyspeak’ and use codes of community-enforced niceness so that ‘nopony’ has to suffer social rejection.2013 April 7, Jon Coumes, “What Do Men's Rights Activists and Bronies Have in Common?”, in The American Prospect. From the entry bronyspeak
  • Pick argues that the general rejection of psycho-history by practising historians has left the story of ‘historical’ psychoanalysis on the shelf.2012, Richard Overy, “The Mind of Evil”, in Literary Review, number 399. From the entry psychohistory
  • Yes, he had gotten his revenge for my rejection.2010, Mary Alice Beasley, Shattered Lens: A Tale of Domestic Violence and Redemption Through Love, AuthorHouse, page 261. From the entry shattered
  • Provocation develops when the 'communicative contract' between the clothing and the consumer is broken, resulting in shocked rejection or euphoric acceptance.2009, Ingrid Loschek, “When is Creativity?”, in Lucinda Rennison, transl., When Clothes become Fashion: Design and Innovation Systems…. From the entry obscene
  • Among the reactions with which the child must learn to cope are overprotectiveness, overpermissiveness, anger or embarrassment, and rejection by society.1982, Rita Beck Black, Bruce P. Hermann, Jean Thatcher Shope, Nursing Management of Epilepsy, page 97. From the entry overprotectiveness
  • Four other group AB grafts were accorded whitegraft rejection.1968 October, FT Rapaport, J Dausset, L Legrand, A Barge, HS Lawrence, JM Converse, “Erythrocytes in human transplantation: effects of…. From the entry whitegraft
  • It’s a splendid period of mutual rejection!1959, Eric W. Johnson, How to Live Through Junior High School, Lippincott, page 189. From the entry snatchier
  • Many young people are also reevaluating what once constituted cringe, attributing use of the term to unacknowledged bigotry more than just a rejection of sincerity.2023 April 23, Taylor Lorenz, “'Am I Cringey? Yes. Do I Care? Absolutely Not'”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media…. From the entry furry
  • With assembly line consistency, Martin receives countless rejections from faceless editors—a triggering reminder for any literary hopeful navigating the modern culture industry.2020 October 13, Beatrice Loayza, “Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden”, in AV Club. From the entry triggering
  • Everyone who went to NWAV can self-identify their areas of expertise and significantly affect the inclusion or rejection of a given paper.2019, Stefan Dollinger, Creating Canadian English: The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English, Cambridge: Cambridge…. From the entry NWAV

Meaning of rejection

  1. noun The act of rejecting.
  2. noun The state of being rejected.
  3. noun A blocked shot.

Full definition of rejection

Questions about rejection in a sentence

How do you use rejection in a sentence?
Rejection is used as a noun. For example: “Haredi Judaism is a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.”
What is a short sentence with rejection?
“My offer was met with rejection”
What does rejection mean?
Rejection means the act of rejecting.

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