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Example sentences for: refute

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

Gwendolyn Freed's outraged review in the Wall Street Journal attempts to refute many of the film's claims and says it "paints a repulsive portrait of du Pré."
On balance it looked as though the Royal Society, and as such the British science establishment as a whole, had weighed the disadvantages of an ERC as greater than its advantages, but Bob May is quick to refute this charge.
Someone who writes book after book to refute what he doesn't understand is just a crank.
There seemed a consensus, to which even W.'s advisers couldn't really refute with a straight face: Bush looked truly wobbly.
The author of the old study says the new study is flawed, and reporters agreed that the new study raises doubts but doesn't necessarily refute the old one.