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Example sentences for: deny

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

"Were the Senate to adjourn and make these findings [affirming the House's conclusions], it would deny the President an acquittal--the result he craves for his own historic legitimacy.
An employer may deny coverage after the worker departs the country or stop paying workers compensation benefits that are owed.
The most damaging claim: HMOs hire ethicists who then justify the HMOs' decisions to deny expensive treatment.
The WP cites this factor and adds another: Netanyahu, who is inclined toward GOP sentiments, knows how much a breakthrough before the congressional elections would mean to Bill Clinton, and hence wants to deny him this success.
Some blast the film because it uses a child's death "as merely the first manipulation of many meant to engender sympathy for its heroine" and call it "fraudulent in every detail" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). Others deny these charges, saying the movie has "an emotional depth and psychological acuity that place it in a category by itself" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). Most concur in their estimation of Weaver's work: "emotionally direct … lovely, warm" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). (Click here to read a review of the Jane Hamilton novel that was the basis of the film.)