Example sentences for: rebuffed

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

  • Incidentally, notes the WSJ , although in his present role Starr has fought hard against the administration's contention that executive privilege shields some key Clinton advisors as well as Hillary, as a U.S. appeals court judge, Starr "seldom rebuffed an assertion of privilege."

  • The priest rebuffed her.

  • His overtures are rebuffed; his son has come to think of his stepfather as his true father.

  • Coloradans rejected a proposal to give tax credits for private school tuition, and South Dakotans rebuffed an effort to stop financing schools with property taxes.

  • But the LAT emphasizes instead Netanyahu's resistance, saying that he "rebuffed" Albright's "appeal to cease economic restrictions to encourage the Palestinian Authority to crack down on terrorism."


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