Example sentences for: denied

How can you use “denied” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In one instance, a department denied a request by the New York Daily News , made under the local Freedom of Information law, for a list of all investigations commenced by an agency in the previous year.

  • I am thinking now of an e-mail from a twentysomething whiner who said that his generation needed Fight Club because they have been denied a war like Vietnam to test themselves in.

  • To begin with, if governments at every level hadn't intervened, beaches everywhere might have been incorporated by the wealthy into Gatsbyesque estates, like those that denied most of the North Shore of Long Island to hoi polloi.

  • Clinton's lawyers hope you will be so snowed by the phrases "absolutely" and "slightest suggestion" that you won't notice that what is being "absolutely" denied isn't all that much.

  • Anders offered upsetting details: A child's mysterious life-threatening disease misdiagnosed; terminal cancer patients denied last-ditch bone-marrow transplants; doctors who watch bottom lines instead of blood pressures; nurses who scan spreadsheets instead of bedsheets ...


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