REFUSE in a Sentence

Learn REFUSE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
408 example sentences for REFUSE, such as:
1. I refuse to sink to their level.
2. He cannot refuse if you ask politely.
3. No, I refuse to consult a doctor from spite.
4. The council is responsible for refuse collection.
5. I insist upon it, in fact, and you cannot refuse.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of REFUSE
refuse
 v.  resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
 v.  refuse to accept
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "But you can't refuse to," said Nozdrev, growing heated.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
2  Tis better to allow a man nothing to eat than to refuse to feed a horse properly.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
3  Nevertheless, either sheer obstinacy or vexation at being parted from their new friends caused the strange team absolutely to refuse to move a leg.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
4  However, even though it will mean a dead loss to me, and you have not shown a very nice spirit about it, I cannot well refuse to please a friend.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
5  Higher powers govern those passions, and in them is something which will call to him, and refuse to be silenced, to the end of his life.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
6  Yes," repeated Kostanzhoglo, "under those circumstances I should never refuse you my assistance.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
7  Labour should be kept in active operation, and, even as, in a mill, flour comes flowing from grain, so should cash, and yet more cash, come flowing from every atom of refuse and remnant.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
8  I won't refuse, if that can be any comfort to you,' he brought out at last; 'but it seems to me there's no need to be in a hurry.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  No, I refuse to consult a doctor from spite.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: I
10  I insist upon it, in fact, and you cannot refuse.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IV
11  "Annette, for heaven's sake don't refuse me," the countess began, with a blush that looked very strange on her thin, dignified, elderly face, and she took the money from under the handkerchief.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII
12  Bagration replied that he was not authorized either to accept or refuse a truce and sent his adjutant to Kutuzov to report the offer he had received.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV
13  From the point of view of the old countess and of society it was out of the question for her to refuse him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XI
14  Sophie," he began, timidly at first and then more and more boldly, "if you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and advantageous match but a splendid, noble fellow.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XI
15  If you refuse him on my account, I must tell you the whole truth.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (198 in 14 pages)
1  Courts can refuse to admit evidence obtained illegally by police.
2  He cannot refuse if you ask politely.
3  The local authority could find itself in the invidious position of having to refuse.
4  They invited us to the party, but we had to refuse because we were busy.
5  The council is responsible for refuse collection.
6  The District Council made a weekly collection of refuse.
7  Some people refuse to buy goods that are overpackaged, because they feel that it is harmful to the environment.
8  The rebels are standing fast and refuse to be defeated.
9  There are plenty of fish in the river, and good baits on my line, but the fish are getting clever and refuse to rise to the bait today.
10  People dump their refuse in the surrounding woods instead of taking it to the tip.
11  I refuse to sink to their level.
12  I refuse to lie about it; it's against my principles.
13  They might refuse to let us do it, but it's hardly likely.
14  His sense of decency and fair play made him refuse the offer.
15  Some nurses wanted the right to refuse to perform abortions.