Example sentences for: refusal

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

  • Later, Walters asks about Clinton's refusal to have intercourse with her.

  • Among the provisions: patients needn't go through their HMOs to see their dermatologists; HMOs cannot forbid doctors to tell patients about expensive treatments available; and patients can protest to an outside board a plan's refusal to pay for a procedure.

  • Hollings paints Inglis' obsession with principles as a handicap, mocking his refusal to accept home-district goodies: "What have you done for your district for six years other than whine and complain and holler 'pork'?"

  • West has really grappled with the great plays and found in the lack of a central consciousness (the protagonists are not mouthpieces for the playwright) and refusal to demonize even the most destructive-seeming characters a hallmark of Christian forgiveness.

  • Michael Kinsley's stated refusal to participate "in the deadening conformity of the culture [of] cyberspace" takes an unusual form in his article "Social Security: From Ponzi Scheme to Shell Game."


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